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Thanks for your help Pete. I emerged ifplugd however it did not |
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create the ifplugd.conf file. Is this something I need to create |
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manually? |
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On 5/17/05, Peter Johanson <latexer@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 06:12:09PM -0400, Zander Z365 wrote: |
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> > Hi, |
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> > This is probably an easy one. |
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> > My laptop has two network connections: hardwired (default) and |
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> > wireless(starts manually). Both are working fine. However, when I |
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> > boot up my laptop without the NIC cable connected it takes a very long |
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> > time to boot. This is because the net.eth0 script keeps trying to |
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> > start networking. I have an older laptop with SuSe 9.2 and it does |
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> > not have this problem. |
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> > How can I configure the startup script so that networking will not be |
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> > started if the cable is not connected? |
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> I'd suggest you look into using ifplugd to handle starting and stopping |
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> your network scripts. Basically, you add ifplugd to the run level, and |
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> not any of the network scripts. Then, ifplugd will start the net.ethX |
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> script when it detects a Layer 1 link existing. It's not perfect, but it |
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> works (most of the time). |
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> Other alternatives are trying to get NetworkManager working (requires |
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> the new "Gentopia" overlay as discussed on the -dev list). I've not |
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> personally tried this though. |
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> -pete |
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