LAN (Wired and Wireless) bootup questions.

[thedevilsjester]

I just installed a DWL-G122 wireless usb nic, with its included Wireless router. I managed to get it working (using the typical ndiswrapper proccess found in a post on this board about the Netgear G111) but I am having a couple issues still.

First, during boot up its still trying to connect using my old wired nic, which isnt connected anymore, which causes the bootup proccess to stall for over one minute while it waits to time out. How can I remove this?

Second, I have to manually load the Wireless Assistant program and click on my connection everytime I boot to get it to connect. How can I get this to load on boot?

And last, when left alone over night, it stops working, and when I goto the Wireless Assistant and click on my default connection it says "Failed". Is there something I am not doing right?

[nixternal]

Re: LAN (Wired and Wireless) bootup questions.

if your new wireless card isn't using eth0 as the port, then it might still be in the /etc/network/interfaces config file. you can try to remove out the following:

# auto eth0
# iface eth0 inet dhcp/static

don't remove, but comment them out by using the # prior to the text. make it look like it does in the code section above.

[thedevilsjester]

Re: LAN (Wired and Wireless) bootup questions.

I commented out those lines in the config, but it didnt speed up the bootproccess any. There is still a (about 30-60 second) pause on the network config portion of the bootup.

I tried to comment the following line from my config

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp

And the bootproccess was back to normal, I figured that maybe the wlan0 inet dhcp that I already had at the bottom of the config was enough. However with that removed WLanAssistant doesnt even detect the card. I tried commenting out other things in my config to see if anything made a difference and no good news.

Is there any way to check to see if its actually connecting to the wlan on bootup? And if its not, is there any way to make it auto connect?

Just for fun, here is my interfaces file:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

#auto eth0
#iface eth0 inet dhcp

#auto eth1
#iface eth1 inet dhcp

#auto eth2
#iface eth2 inet dhcp

auto ath0
iface ath0 inet dhcp

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp

wlan0 inet dhcp

[nixternal]

Re: LAN (Wired and Wireless) bootup questions.

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp

that is all you really need for your configuration file. If it is still slow, then it is DHCP more then likely causing the issue. I don't use DHCP, nor use DHCP client on my network as I am a static freak, and enjoy remembering all of my IP addresses like a blooming idiot

Give that a shot, and lets see what happens there.

[thedevilsjester]

Re: LAN (Wired and Wireless) bootup questions.

No, doesnt change a thing. The long bootup proccess isnt the major problem though, the major problem is the fact that unless someone with admin rights connects using wlanassistant, then no one on the PC can use the net.

Any ideas?

[thedevilsjester]

Re: LAN (Wired and Wireless) bootup questions.

*Bump*

Anyone? This is really causing me problems, any ideas?

[sky]

Re: LAN (Wired and Wireless) bootup questions.

Hi,

Are you getting messages in the log /var/log/daemon.log before to set the wifi with the gui ?
What is the output of ifonfig -a before and after gui ?

Cheers