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. 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. It's not a huge deal but I'd like it to work the first time. Previously I noticed a kernel module ieee80211_crypt_ccmp being loaded just after the initial attempt to connect to the router during boot, so I added that to /etc/modules to see if that would help (the idea being to put it in place before the attempt to connect) but it hasn't made any difference. I'm thinking that some of my startup scripts are out of order but I'm not sure which ones are relevant, so looking for advice. Thanks in advance Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
