You didn't specify your Debian release, my responses below apply to lenny and sid, not sure about etch. On Sat,13.Sep.08, 08:42:55, Urs Thuermann wrote: > I want to connect an embeded mobile WLAN station to a WLAN network > with WPA-PSK and DHCP. In /etc/network/interfaces I have > > auto ath0 > iface ath0 inet dhcp > wpa-driver wext 'wext' is default, no need to specify it > Therefore, my questions are: > > 1. Is it possible to configure ifup so that it goes to backgound > immediately so that the boot process isn't delayed? Try setting 'CONCURRENCY=startpar' in /etc/init.d/rc, but do read the notes before. > 2. Can wpa_supplicant and dhclient talk to each other so that dhclient > doesn't start to send DHCP requests before the WPA connection is > established but then after connection sends its requests in short > intervalls? I think the roaming mode might be better suited for your needs. See README.Debian for more info. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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