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garnetrook

Member

Registered: 2007-12-24

Posts: 2

[Solved] wlan0 timeout during "Starting Network"

My problem isn't too big, it's just slowing down my boot for like 10-15 seconds while it times out detecting my wireless setup.  I have an Intel Pro 3945 card.  Once the system boots, I am able to use wireless just fine connecting through iwconfig (this is my third day using arch, so I'm actually quite proud about that).

/etc/rc.d/network restart
returns:

Error, wlan0: timed out
Warning, wlan0: using IPV4LL address 169.254.173.233

In /etc/rc.conf, I have iwl3945 in my modules,  I also have:

lo="lo 127.0.0.1"
eth0="dhcp"
wlan0="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(lo !eth0 wlan0)

in /etc/conf.d/wireless I have:

wlan_wlan0="wlan0 mode managed essid default"
WLAN_INTERFACES=(wlan0)

I've added the bang to the eth0 entry in INTERFACES because I get a different error when that runs, but my wireless runs just fine without it so I can try to work on that a different day.  If I bang out wlan0, it obviously doesn't work (though the error also doesn't pop up)

Thanks for your help!

Last edited by garnetrook (2007-12-25 20:55:34)

iphitus

Forum Fellow

From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: [Solved] wlan0 timeout during "Starting Network"

Welcome to Arch!

The soon-to-be-default Arch wireless setup will be netcfg2, so it'd be best if you setup your wireless using that, there's details and links to documentation here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=39505

dante4d

Member

From: Czech Republic

Registered: 2007-04-14

Posts: 176

Re: [Solved] wlan0 timeout during "Starting Network"

Or you can at least put @ before network in DAEMONS array to put it in the background so it won't wait for completion...

garnetrook

Member

Registered: 2007-12-24

Posts: 2

Re: [Solved] wlan0 timeout during "Starting Network"

thanks for the quick replies! I've got wireless working for the moment, so I think I'll stick with iwconfig until I get everything else sorted out... adding a single character was just too easy a solution to pass up.  I'll definitely keep my eye on netcfg2 though = )

Merry Christmas!

Last edited by garnetrook (2007-12-25 20:58:44)