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I have an ubuntu 13.04 server and want to connect to my network via wifi. At boot I get "Waiting for network configuration..." and "Waiting up to 60 more seconds for network configuration...". However my wifi LED is not turned on and get no connection.

When I run 

sudo service networking restart

the wifi LED is turned on and I connect quickly.

This is my /etc/network/interfaces:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
    wpa-ssid MySSID
    wpa-psk  MyPassword

Do you have any idea how to connect immediately at boot?

Edit:

My dmesg output

ACNB
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You should be able to get it added to the boot-up routine with the following:

sudo update-rc.d networking defaults

If that doesn't work or if it tells you it's already there, make sure it isn't crashing at bootup. This will show you error messages in the log:

dmesg | tail 40

You can find more helpful information about starting services at boot-up time here.

Freedom_Ben
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  • Unfortunately this did not help. I added my dmesg output to the original question, but could not detect anything promising. Maybe in line 749: "wlan0: link is not ready"? – ACNB Oct 10 '13 at 07:58
  • Based on your dmesg I wonder if your networking service is starting too soon. Try changing the order so it starts last (this is old but may help: http://serverfault.com/questions/193115/how-can-i-change-the-service-boot-order-in-ubuntu-server-10-04). You may also try disabling IPv6 since that is what it complained about: http://askubuntu.com/questions/309461/how-to-disable-ipv6-permanently – Freedom_Ben Oct 10 '13 at 16:28
  • Thanks, but still no success. http:://pastebin.com/x0yxpnNv - dmesg – ACNB Oct 11 '13 at 11:50
  • Wow I'm running out of ideas :-O Try running sudo service networking restart as an upstart task and see if that does it http://askubuntu.com/a/1135/136192 . In the script you probably want the first line #!/bin/bash and the second line sudo service networking restart – Freedom_Ben Oct 11 '13 at 13:20
  • I've now installed ubuntu 12.04 and everything works well. The LTS version seems to be much more stable. Thank you very much for helping anyway. – ACNB Oct 12 '13 at 15:14