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sloove

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Registered: 2011-10-31

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[SOLVED]manage wlan connections on startup

Hi guys,

so I just installed my ArchLinux and everything just works great and fast. Really love the Arch way so far.

But I'm having a question how to deal with my wlan-connections on startup.

I installed Arch on a laptop and while I'm at home I want it to connect to my wireless network on startup which is fine and no big deal, so I'm letting the net-profiles daemon do his
job and connect on startup.

But when I'm not at home, using my laptop at a friends place or cafe I dont want the boot process taking up all day to boot because he can't find my home network.

Which way would be the fastest to scan for my home network but if undiscoverable just not using my wlan-card atm.

thanks

Last edited by sloove (2011-11-01 05:32:41)

bohoomil

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Re: [SOLVED]manage wlan connections on startup

Hello,

Maybe use net-auto-wireless? Personally, I background the @net-profiles in rc.conf, so the system loads fine even if there's no connection available that I can / want to use.

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sloove

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Registered: 2011-10-31

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Re: [SOLVED]manage wlan connections on startup

ahh, yeah didn't think of that. The @net-profiles solutins works jsut the way i wanted to.

thanks