On Friday 08 October 2004 07:21 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> 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.
Thanks, I'll gve a try - Let you know how it works on Monday.
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