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From: Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Disabling net.ath0 backgrounding
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 03:55:32
Message-Id: 49bf44f10610232051v333405f7mbf5ed05bcd382449@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Disabling net.ath0 backgrounding by "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr."
1 > > > > I tried the following in /etc/conf.d/net :
2 > > > >
3 > > > > modules_ath0=( "!plug" )
4 > > > >
5 > > > > but it still goes into "backgrounding".
6 > > > That shouldn't happen.
7 > > >
8 > > > Please post the output of:
9 > > > grep -Ev '^[[:space:]]*(#.*)?$' /etc/conf.d/net
10 > >
11 > > modules="wpa_supplicant"
12 > > wpa_supplicant_ath0="-Dmadwifi"
13 > > config_ath0=( "192.168.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast
14 > > 192.168.0.255" ) routes_ath0=( "default via 192.168.0.1" )
15 > > essid_ath0="network2"
16 > > modules_ath0=( "!plug" )
17 >
18 > Around line 159 in my net.example says:
19 > # By default don't wait for wpa_suppliant to associate and authenticate.
20 > # If you would like to, so can specify how long in seconds
21 > #associate_timeout_eth0=60
22 > # A value of 0 means wait forever.
23 >
24 > It may be possible that you need to set this variable to 0 to prevent
25 > backgrounding, independent of the ifplugd/netplug quashing.
26
27 I found this that mentions disabling backgrounding:
28
29 http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_wg511t
30
31 but the quoted portion of net.lo doesn't seem to exist in the latest
32 stable version.
33
34 - Grant
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