I want to connect an embeded mobile WLAN station to a WLAN network with WPA-PSK and DHCP. In /etc/network/interfaces I have
auto ath0 iface ath0 inet dhcp wpa-driver wext wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/ww.conf My problem is when I boot while the WLAN is not available. Then ifup automatically starts wpa_supplicant and dhclient to set up the interface. But dhclient will not be able to get a configuration by DHCP and waits for a number of intervalls which causes quite a long delay in boot time. Then ifup returns and the boot process continues, while wpa_supplicant and dhclient continue to work in the background. The second problem is this: When at some time the WLAN becomes available, wpa_supplicant will establish the connection to the access point but it doesn't inform dhclient to send a new DHCP request immediately. Instead, dhclient sends it DHCP request in very long, randomized intervalls, so it can take very long (like 20 or 30 minutes) until the interface is configured from the time the WLAN becomes available. Therefore, my questions are: 1. Is it possible to configure ifup so that it goes to backgound immediately so that the boot process isn't delayed? 2. Can wpa_supplicant and dhclient talk to each other so that dhclient doesn't start to send DHCP requests before the WPA connection is established but then after connection sends its requests in short intervalls? urs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]