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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