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b9anders

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Registered: 2007-11-07

Posts: 691

wireless only detected on bootup

I have a wireless radio switch on my lenovo, allowing me to turn it off when I don't need it, which is very handy for powersaving.

Arch doesn't seem to recognise my wireless if I turn it on after boot or turn it off then turn it back on during a boot. This works in Debian, so it's not a fault of linux. Any ideas as to how to make this work?

violagirl23

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Registered: 2008-01-24

Posts: 184

Re: wireless only detected on bootup

Wait, so if it is on while you are booting up but afterwards while doing other things you switch it off, later switching it back on will leave it not working?
As for the first one, couldn't this be called by it trying to autostart your wireless and failing, so you have to do it manually later?
I'm not on Arch right now, so I don't remember the exact syntax (Gentoo does it differently a bit), but for the first situation, does doing /etc/rc.d/net.wlan0 start  fix the problem? Or did you do that and it's just not finding it/working at all?

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