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Maybe this should be in networking...

Anyway, my problem is that the network comes up about a minute after the desktop does, this causes several problems not least of which being network shares failing to mount. It seems to have started after I was seeing if a wireless adapter I had would work (for no reason other than curiosity), and think it may be trying to bring up the wlan first causing the delay. I have found a file called wlan.conf shown below - the question is should I just comment out everything that isn't already? I have tried removiing the connection using the MCC but it doesn't appear to have helped. Is there something else I should look into?




Mandriva 2010.0 all current updates.KDE 4.3.5

Try to deactivate Ipv6 in the Network center->Advanced functions(or something - I have the Norwegian version). If that does not help I'll send out my ravens to our mighty Guru

I was absolutely sure I already had IPv6 disabled - it appears not. So I disabled it and rebooted - it seems a little quicker but still about 40s late - ideally I want it started before X.

I am timing it using Konversation - when it fails to connect it retries every ten seconds, disabling IPv6 has got it down from about 8 retries to about 4.

Well - while we are waiting for the heavy duty Gurus; I have had some success with entering manual DNS:
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

This has given me some speed. You see, the DNS can be the reason, and in that case it does not matter how much you tweak on your end. Assuming you get your DNS automatically via DHCP.

You can click on your network symbol and remove the check mark in DHCP DNS something and add the DNS given above. Also you need to register om http://opendns.com
to get your very own control panel (free of course). It is neat it, is fast, and also gives you filtering possibilities, where you can exclude spaming and fishing sites.
It also takes some of the power from your ISP - dividing power is good (Montesquieu one of the Architects behind the French revolution that also was the benchmark for the American constitution - you know, in the pre Microsoft days )
Restart your connection and you are surfing faster with Opendns.

Am not a wireless person; don't even want to be, so here's in the hope that Rolf can answer, or DiBosco (*maybe* Samwise). The only wireless in my house is my cell phone (because that's the only phone I can get right now), and even that only does phone calls and text messaging.

Something is stirring in memory but the specter is not showing its face. Maybe it is a service daemon that has a long timeout and is not needed.



Reader's Digest version, based on the theory a service is on for your machine and off for mine, where there is no such delay for network:



Beyond that,



Maybe scroll through that and look for something waiting for a timeout.

Todays output from cat /var/log/messages: http://pastebin.mandriva.com/18510
I can't see anything - ethernet starts coming up at line 499 - I would have thought it would come up way sooner, I am sure it used to, I know when I run puppy linux it comes up way before X.

I can't see anything that means anything to me when running the other commands - but I don't really know what I am looking for...
There are certainly more lines, wlan is there but always off.

chkconfig --list



chkconfig --list|grep 5:off

In MCC > System > Manage System Services is the gui for chkconfig. nfs-common has to do with network shares, it seems (if you click the Info button), and it is enabled on mine, not yours, although I don't have network shares.