HowTo , Connecting wlan0 when in Single user mode

[Tim]

On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 14:42 -0700, JD wrote:
> service wpa_supplicant start
> wait a few minutes for the wpa supplicant to sync up with router
> then

I have to ask:  Why would that take minutes, rather than mere seconds?

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