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On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 10:22 -0700, Jason Rhinelander wrote: |
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> There is, it's called dhcpcd_eth0 in /etc/conf.d/net. Just add "-t 10" |
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> and you have your 10 second timeout. Alternatively, set up your boot |
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> loader to give you a choice - I do this, and I choose "Gentoo" (boots |
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> with softlevel=default, which starts net.eth0), or "Wireless" (boots |
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> with softlevel=wireless, which starts net.wlan0 and NOT net.eth0) or |
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> "Networkless" (boots with softlevel=nonetwork). After all, YOU are |
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> hopefully going to know better than Gentoo whether or not your network |
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> should be up. |
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I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for these comments. This is |
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exactly what I was meaning by my earlier statements on this subject. It |
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seems some people want us to do everything, even when we have already |
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given them the tools to make the system the way they wish. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Operations/QA Manager |
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Games - Developer |
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