On Sunday 02 December 2007 15:21:34 Tony Arnold wrote: > Peter Lewis wrote: > > I've been living with this for a while, but it's starting to annoy me a > > little. I wonder if anyone can help. > > > > So far as I can tell, my network connection is brought up when I log in > > to my Kubuntu box, through the network manager tray icon. This connects > > me to my wireless network. > > > > However, I have a couple of NFS shares, which are listed in fstab. They > > never get brought up automatically though, since during booting, the > > network is not up yet. I then have to do a 'sudo mount -a' to get them to > > come up *after* I've logged in. > > > > I'm sure it's not supposed to work like this. How do I get the network up > > earlier so that this isn't an issue? > > Is this a desktop that always connects to the same Wireless Access > Point? if so, you could manually configure the wireless (click on the > network manager icon and select manual configuration). The wireless > connection should come up at boot time then.
Another good suggestion, thanks Tony. I've switched it over to a manual configuration (i.e. in /etc/network/interfaces) now, so will do a reboot and see what happens... Cheers, Pete. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/