wlan hanging on bootup

Ralph Alvy ralph at ralphalvy.com
Mon Jul 23 04:39:25 UTC 2007


Found the file to edit:

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0

Once I found that, while booted in a different linux, I could edit it so I
had this:

ONBOOT=no

Now I can boot Fedora Core 7 again. Thanks.

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:

> Ralph Alvy wrote:
>> I notice that FC7 is hanging on boot when it attempts to configure wlan
>> interface. I don't have wireless internet here.
>> 
> One way to avoid this is to set "ONBOOT=no" in the configuration for
> your wireless interface. There is a checkbox to control this in the
> network configuration GUI. You can also set "USERCTL=yes" to let a
> normal user bring up the interface.
> 
> Mikkel





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