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Putting your distro in the User CP would help. You may have your wireless configured for "on boot" and booting doesn't finish until it times out. Post the entry for "sudo /sbin/lspci" for your wireless device. That info is needed to find out which controller you wireless device uses. This will determine the driver you need. "sudo /sbin/lsmod" will show the modules loaded, one or more of which are related to wireless. If the device is configured and working "/usr/sbin/iwlist scan" should list APs that are in range. If you see a list of Access Points, then you may just need to configure the wpa_psk encryption. But your error message indicates a problem with the device.
Putting your distro in the User CP would help. You may have your wireless configured for "on boot" and booting doesn't finish until it times out. Post the entry for "sudo /sbin/lspci" for your wireless device. That info is needed to find out which controller you wireless device uses. This will determine the driver you need. "sudo /sbin/lsmod" will show the modules loaded, one or more of which are related to wireless. If the device is configured and working "/usr/sbin/iwlist scan" should list APs that are in range. If you see a list of Access Points, then you may just need to configure the wpa_psk encryption. But your error message indicates a problem with the device.
I don't know which distro you are using. Look in the "man ifcfg" manpage under startmode.
Code:
STARTMODE {manual*|auto|hotplug|ifplugd|nfsroot|off}
Choose when the interface should be set up.
manual Interface will be set up if ifup is called manually (without option boot or hotplug)
auto Interface will be set up as soon as it is available (and service network was started). This either happens at
boot time when network is starting or via hotplug when a interface is added to the system (by adding a device or
loading a driver). To be backward compliant onboot, on and boot are aliases for auto.
hotplug
This mode is nearly the same as auto. The difference between auto and hotplug is that the latter does not make
rcnetwork fail if the interface cannot be brought up.
ifplugd
The interface will be controlled from ifplugd. At initial ifup only iflugd will be started for this interface.
Then if ifplugd detects a link if calls ifup again which finally sets the interface up. See also variable
IFPLUGD_PRIORITY below.
nfsroot
Nearly like auto, but interfaces with this startmode will never be shut down via rcnetwork stop. ifdown <inter‐
face> still works. Use this when you use a root filesystem via network.
off Will never be activated.
Also, if you have a network mount in /etc/fstab, add the _netdev option to defer an attempt to mount it until after the network is started. I don't know how you would change the timeout. Maybe study your ifup script.
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