Wifi network doesn't come up on boot (3945ABG) but starts manually

[jarthurs]

I have recently installed Feisty Fawn on my Toshiba A100-216. Everything appears to work well but the wireless only works if I manually restart networking once the machine has booted using:

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

After networking has been restarted the wireless connection works fine.

The machine pauses for quite a while during boot and I'm assuming that something is timing out or failing at boot time.

Anyone have any suggestions?
Regards,
Jason.

[penguin.ch]

Re: Wifi network doesn't come up on boot (3945ABG) but starts manually

The machine pauses for quite a while during boot and I'm assuming that something is timing out or failing at boot time.

You may take a closer look at /var/log/dmesg and/or revive the bootlog daemon as described on this page in order to find out about the "who & why" ...

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Postscript: reference updated

[insmod]

Re: Wifi network doesn't come up on boot (3945ABG) but starts manually

I had the same happen on the old Libranet distro. my solution was easy! just write a new script for init.d that reloads networking later in the boot cycle. works great.

good luck and message if you need more help!

[Detonate]

Re: Wifi network doesn't come up on boot (3945ABG) but starts manually

Could you post the contents of

cat /etc/network/interfaces

[jarthurs]

Re: Wifi network doesn't come up on boot (3945ABG) but starts manually

As requested my interfaces file looks like...

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
address 127.0.0.1
netmask 255.0.0.0

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
wireless-essid Vitae
wireless-key <26 digit hex code>

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

[Detonate]

Re: Wifi network doesn't come up on boot (3945ABG) but starts manually

Try this. It's the way mine is setup and works perfectly.

Edit the interfaces file as sudo with kedit or kwrite or kate.

Make a backup first.

Then replace the entry:

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
wireless-essid Vitae
wireless-key <26 digit hex code>

With:

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid Vitae
wireless-key <26 digit hex code>

Save the file and restart.

If it doesn't work, restore the file from your backup.