On Friday 08 October 2004 05:03 pm, Brandon Rife wrote: > Hi, > > I have wired and wireless PCMCIA cards in my laptop. At home I connect > wireless, at work, I am wired. The wired interface, eth0, fails almost > instantly on boot at home - good. At work the wireless interface, wlan0, > takes a couple of minutes to fail - bad. Is there anything that I can do > to make the wireless interface fail more quickly? > > Thanks, > Brandon (currently wired at work:)
Brandon, put this in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 DHCP_TIMEOUT=5 This of course, assumes that you are using DHCP. You can play with the value (5) to get the best performance. HTHs. :-) PS If nothing else, compare what is in ifcfg-eth0 to ifcfg-wlan0. -- /\ Dark< >Lord \/
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