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.
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