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cybe-arch

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Speed up wicd's connection to wireless ap

Hi,

I'm wondering if there are some way to speed up wicd's connection to my wireless AP?
My wireless network is unsecured. The log is taken from the startup of my machine.

(You can find the full log above)

Here you can see it takes 6 seconds to find out there is no link at eth0 and then another 5 seconds before it starts to connect to my AP

2010/07/24 18:42:51 :: Using wired interface...eth0
2010/07/24 18:42:57 :: Autoconnecting...
2010/07/24 18:42:59 :: No wired connection present, attempting to autoconnect to wireless network
2010/07/24 18:43:04 :: trying to automatically connect to...BuddhaBar

So it begins to put the interface down and then up again (?) and it takes about 15 seconds to get a successful DHCP connection.
Thats a long time, isn't it?

2010/07/24 18:43:04 :: Connecting to wireless network BuddhaBar
2010/07/24 18:43:04 :: Putting interface down
2010/07/24 18:43:04 :: Releasing DHCP leases...
2010/07/24 18:43:04 :: Setting false IP...
2010/07/24 18:43:04 :: Stopping wpa_supplicant
2010/07/24 18:43:04 :: Flushing the routing table...
2010/07/24 18:43:04 :: Putting interface up...
2010/07/24 18:43:06 :: Running DHCP with hostname *****
2010/07/24 18:43:06 :: dhcpcd[4150]: version 5.2.7 starting
2010/07/24 18:43:06 :: dhcpcd[4150]: wlan0: rebinding lease of 192.168.1.127
2010/07/24 18:43:16 :: dhcpcd[4150]: wlan0: broadcasting for a lease
2010/07/24 18:43:16 :: dhcpcd[4150]: wlan0: offered 192.168.1.127 from 192.168.1.1
2010/07/24 18:43:16 :: dhcpcd[4150]: wlan0: acknowledged 192.168.1.127 from 192.168.1.1
2010/07/24 18:43:16 :: dhcpcd[4150]: wlan0: checking for 192.168.1.127
2010/07/24 18:43:21 :: dhcpcd[4150]: wlan0: leased 192.168.1.127 for 86400 seconds
2010/07/24 18:43:21 :: dhcpcd[4150]: forked to background, child pid 4190
2010/07/24 18:43:21 :: DHCP connection successful

Full log:

2010/07/24 18:42:51 :: ---------------------------
2010/07/24 18:42:51 :: wicd initializing...
2010/07/24 18:42:51 :: ---------------------------
2010/07/24 18:42:51 :: wicd is version 1.7.0 552
2010/07/24 18:42:51 :: setting backend to external
2010/07/24 18:42:51 :: trying to load backend external
2010/07/24 18:42:51 :: successfully loaded backend external
2010/07/24 18:42:51 :: trying to load backend external
2010/07/24 18:42:51 :: successfully loaded backend external
2010/07/24 18:42:51 :: Automatically detected wireless interface wlan0
2010/07/24 18:42:51 :: setting wireless interface wlan0
2010/07/24 18:42:51 :: automatically detected wired interface eth0
2010/07/24 18:42:51 :: setting wired interface eth0
2010/07/24 18:42:51 :: setting wpa driver wext
2010/07/24 18:42:51 :: setting use global dns to False
2010/07/24 18:42:51 :: setting global dns
2010/07/24 18:42:51 :: global dns servers are None None None
2010/07/24 18:42:51 :: domain is None
2010/07/24 18:42:51 :: search domain is None
2010/07/24 18:42:51 :: setting automatically reconnect when connection drops True
2010/07/24 18:42:51 :: Setting dhcp client to 0
2010/07/24 18:42:51 :: Wireless configuration file found...
2010/07/24 18:42:51 :: Wired configuration file found...
2010/07/24 18:42:51 :: chmoding configuration files 0600...
2010/07/24 18:42:51 :: chowning configuration files root:root...
2010/07/24 18:42:51 :: Using wireless interface...wlan0
2010/07/24 18:42:51 :: Using wired interface...eth0
2010/07/24 18:42:57 :: Autoconnecting...
2010/07/24 18:42:59 :: No wired connection present, attempting to autoconnect to wireless network
2010/07/24 18:43:04 :: trying to automatically connect to...BuddhaBar
2010/07/24 18:43:04 :: Connecting to wireless network BuddhaBar
2010/07/24 18:43:04 :: Putting interface down
2010/07/24 18:43:04 :: Releasing DHCP leases...
2010/07/24 18:43:04 :: Setting false IP...
2010/07/24 18:43:04 :: Stopping wpa_supplicant
2010/07/24 18:43:04 :: Flushing the routing table...
2010/07/24 18:43:04 :: Putting interface up...
2010/07/24 18:43:06 :: Running DHCP with hostname *****
2010/07/24 18:43:06 :: dhcpcd[4150]: version 5.2.7 starting
2010/07/24 18:43:06 :: 
2010/07/24 18:43:06 :: dhcpcd[4150]: wlan0: rebinding lease of 192.168.1.127
2010/07/24 18:43:06 :: 
2010/07/24 18:43:16 :: dhcpcd[4150]: wlan0: broadcasting for a lease
2010/07/24 18:43:16 :: 
2010/07/24 18:43:16 :: dhcpcd[4150]: wlan0: offered 192.168.1.127 from 192.168.1.1
2010/07/24 18:43:16 :: 
2010/07/24 18:43:16 :: dhcpcd[4150]: wlan0: acknowledged 192.168.1.127 from 192.168.1.1
2010/07/24 18:43:16 :: 
2010/07/24 18:43:16 :: dhcpcd[4150]: wlan0: checking for 192.168.1.127
2010/07/24 18:43:16 :: 
2010/07/24 18:43:21 :: dhcpcd[4150]: wlan0: leased 192.168.1.127 for 86400 seconds
2010/07/24 18:43:21 :: 
2010/07/24 18:43:21 :: dhcpcd[4150]: forked to background, child pid 4190
2010/07/24 18:43:21 :: 
2010/07/24 18:43:21 :: 
2010/07/24 18:43:21 :: DHCP connection successful
2010/07/24 18:43:21 :: not verifying

Last edited by cybe-arch (2010-08-26 16:54:07)

cybe-arch

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Re: Speed up wicd's connection to wireless ap

Oh, one other note - to compare OSX on the same machine is already connected when i boot up and my android phone uses ~1sec.

yochaigal

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Registered: 2011-02-06

Posts: 202

Re: Speed up wicd's connection to wireless ap

Did you ever figure this out?
I want wicd to connect before gnome even starts (I use autologin) --- at the moment, I have to wait till I see it's connected before opening a browser.
thanks

aof

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Registered: 2010-06-18

Posts: 39

Re: Speed up wicd's connection to wireless ap

In /etc/rc.conf file set wicd with '@' then it starts in background.

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng dbus @wicd @alsa netfs crond)

yochaigal

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Registered: 2011-02-06

Posts: 202

Re: Speed up wicd's connection to wireless ap

I initially tried that, then after seeing your example decided to move my dbus and wicd up a bit.

but that didn't do much neither.

here's my line:

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng dbus @wicd acpid crond netfs cups)

Maybe I'm being silly? I was hoping I'd see the green status bar in the notification area immediately (as if you logged in and logged out).  perhaps that's a bit overzealous...

Last edited by yochaigal (2011-02-18 08:12:52)

jelly

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Re: Speed up wicd's connection to wireless ap

Oh, one other note - to compare OSX on the same machine is already connected when i boot up and my android phone uses ~1sec.

You don't know what OSX does, so comparing with it is not only strange but inaccurate.

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