Boot takes forever when loading wireless card

[Edd]

When booting the system, the progress bar stops for ages, then the lights on my wireless card come on then it continues. So as far as I can tell, it seems to be having some form of difficulty booting the card. Is there anyway I can quicken up the boot time because it never use to take this long when I used 10.1 OE.

Thanks a lot :)

[Darkelve]

I'm on SuSe, so I'm not sure everything works the same, but in my case someone recommended me to change a line in the file

/etc/sysconfig/network/dhcp

 

And to put:

 

## Type: integer

## Default: 15

#

# When the DHCP client is started at boot time, the boot process will stop

# until the interface is successfully configured, but at most for

# DHCLIENT_WAIT_AT_BOOT seconds.

#

DHCLIENT_WAIT_AT_BOOT="1"

 

The red bold text is what I changed. I don't know too much about this stuff, but what I *think* is happening, is that the access point expects your card to ask for an address once, then gives it when it stops asking for it. However, since your card keeps requesting an address, the access point holds out until the DHCP request times out. At least, that would explain how changing the "DHCLIENT_WAIT_AT_BOOT" timeout speeds up the process of assigning an IP to your system.

Edited July 22, 2005 by Darkelve

[Edd]

It looks like what I need but that file ent there in Mandriva! Anyone know where I should look on Mandriva for this file?

Thanks :)