On Fri 06 Oct 2017 at 20:25:51 +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 02:07:27PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > As for your present issue: > > > > allow-hotplug wlo1 > > iface wlo1 inet dhcp > > wpa-ssid <station> > > wpa-psk <passphrase> > > > > in /e/n/i should work. > > tried it, no effect, on close inspection of the boot-up process, > the problem seems to be with the wifi hardware on my laptop. > it takes more time to initialize and hence when "allow-hotplug" > based commands are executed it isn't ready for work.
I've not usually encountered any problem with this stanza. I'm also fairly sure it is what a preseeded installer gives you. You could try "auto", I suppose. > after letting the system boot-up, i have to wait a few seconds > before i can issue "ifup wlo1" and that too takes unusually > long to complete. It could be dhcp taking its time. Use 'ifup -v wlo1' to find out. -- Brian.