Wireless hookup <solved>

[donvan1]

I am using a Toshiba laptop with internal wireless modem. Recently the Toshiba failed to initialize the wireless connection automatically on start up. I can manually start it and continue as usual. Anyone have an idea what has caused the machine to fail to initialize automatically at boot? I use the updated version of the KDE desktop.

[djohnston]

You'll need to edit this file as root.

/etc/sysconfig/speedboot

It will probably look like this:

#possible values : auto / yes / no / probe
#probe should only be used on kernel commandline : speedboot=probe
#to reset speedboot status for current kernel
SPEEDBOOT=auto

Change the last line to:

SPEEDBOOT=no

Reboot and see if that fixed it.

[donvan1]

Well, it came up working this time but I think I'll continue to watch it for a day or two before marking it as solved.

[djohnston]

It will continue to work. On some systems, whether wireless or ethernet, the speedboot procedure just doesn't give enough time for the network connection to be made. But, continue to monitor.

[donvan1]

thanks for the heads up on SPEEDBOOT I've had no repeat of the problem since I made the change so I will mark this as solved.