It would be more intelligent behaviour for the ifup script to wait with dhcp for AP association. If it does not do this, as you say, please report a bug against the ifupdown package. Perhaps the file /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf can help you. In particular, the 'retry' statement. Check the dhclient.conf(5) manual for that. -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/