Darac Marjal <mailingl...@darac.org.uk> writes: > On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 10:44:29AM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> Hi all Debian users. >> >> On my old Pentium III, at boot, a message similar to: >> >> A start job is running for LSB: Raise network interfaces >> >> appears for some seconds, accompanied with a sort of red lightening. In >> Google I saw some similar cases and they were solved commenting out >> particular lines in /etc/network/interfaces, but non of them is suitable for >> my case. Here's my /etc/network/interfaces: >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system >> # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). >> >> source /etc/network/interfaces.d/* >> >> # The loopback network interface >> auto lo >> iface lo inet loopback >> >> # my wifi device >> auto wlx14cc20116af7 >> iface wlx14cc20116af7 inet dhcp >> wpa-ssid my-ssid >> wpa-psk my-password >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> . I wish that message disappeared. Please help. > > You have an interface configured to use WPA and DHCP. This *WILL* take a > few seconds. First, your adapter needs to find the Access Point, > establish a connection and authenticate using the pre-shared key. Only > once that link is established, can the DHCP sequence begin. This > involves broadcasting a request packet and then listening for several > seconds (this is repeated at varying intervals). Once an acceptable > acknowledgement packet is received, then hook scripts are run to set IP, > DNS, NTP etc. Only once they are done, can the interface be considered > "ready".
I see. But on another machine of mine, I have the same configuration and the problem doesn't occur. > You MIGHT be able to hide the message for a little bit by setting the > interface from "auto wlx..." to "allow-hotplug wlx...". I believe this > will lower the priority of the interface such that it is not critical to > the booting of the system. "auto" tells the system that it must bring up > the interface (and any services that depend on networking will thus wait > for that to happen), whereas "allow-hotplug" says that the system MAY > bring up the interface when it appears (however, services that depend on > networking may or may not have an issue with only 'lo' being up). This seems to work. Thanks! Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/877fqcp3c4.fsf...@gmail.com
