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SteveHoffmanUK

No network configuration on boot

Post by SteveHoffmanUK »

Booting into Mint17, I have a long wait with message "Waiting for network configuration ..." Then the message "Waiting up to 60 more seconds for network configuration" and a further wait, then "Booting system without network configuration". Desktop appears and the networking Icon in the panel says on mouseover, "Networking disabled" and shows a red 'X'. Left-clicking on the icon shows message "Network Manager is not running".

So, it looks like I've got no wifi, no internet connection, nada, right? WRONG! It all works: Thunderbird collects my email, Chromium shows I'm connected to the Web.

Further details from my terminal:

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steve@steve-desktop ~ $ sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py
[sudo] password for steve: 
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
wlan1     IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:"Hoffnet"  Nickname:"<WIFI@REALTEK>"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: 4C:60:DE:6B:A3:5A   
          Bit Rate:54 Mb/s   Sensitivity:0/0  
          Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:****-****-****-****-****-****-****-****   Security mode:open
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=100/100  Signal level=61/100  Noise level=0/100
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

eth0      no wireless extensions.

lo        no wireless extensions.

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* IV. querying ifconfig...
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:240 (240.0 B)  TX bytes:240 (240.0 B)

wlan1     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 14:cc:20:19:c7:8b  
          inet addr:192.168.0.6  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::16cc:20ff:fe19:c78b/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1792 errors:0 dropped:2 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2059 errors:0 dropped:1 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:1274288 (1.2 MB)  TX bytes:373966 (373.9 KB)

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* V. querying DHCP...
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server:		192.168.0.1
Address:	192.168.0.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:	google.com
Address: 216.58.208.78

steve@steve-desktop ~ $
and lsusb shows:

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Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:8178 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8192CU 802.11n WLAN Adapter
How can I get rid of the long boot-up and the false "Network, she no work" messages and icon?

Thanks for any suggestions!
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Neil Edmond
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Re: No network configuration on boot

Post by Neil Edmond »

Don't know why, buy my Mint boot the same way, only when the access point it's configured for is out of range. When I'm at home and in range, it boots at normal speed without waiting an extra 2 minutes trying to configure the out of range network.
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