Mark Fletcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi list > > I'm running etch on a Toshiba Satellite laptop I picked up about a year > ago now in Hong Kong. It's on my home wireless LAN supported by a > Buffalo Airstation 54G which I bought recently here in Japan. The > wireless LAN card in the laptop is an inbuilt Intel ipw3945. > > If I configure my interfaces file to use WEP, and configure my wireless > router accordingly, everything works perfectly. > > However, I recently made the switch to WPA. What I notice now is that > when I boot up the initial attempt to get an IP address from the > wireless router via DHCP USUALLY fails (very occasionally works first > time, but hasn't for ages now) -- times out and eventually gives up. The > boot then continues and I end up in gdm as normal. If I now log straight > in I will find networking is not working.
I have the same problem with my HP Pavillion/etch/ipw3945, although I have a Belkin N1 as access point. I found that delaying the wlan set-up by moving it from /etc/init.d/networking to /etc/rc.local is an improvement - now it works at least 9 times out of 10. > However, if I just leave it for a while and go make a coffee or > something, when I come back and log in, networking will be > working. So something is clearly trying again later and succeeding > the second time. I suppose you have network-manager or something similar installed? Cheers -- Björn Wirén -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
