[gentoo-user] ntp-client doesn't start

[John Blinka]

Hi,

I have a very old Dell P150ST laptop that I try to maintain Gentoo on. 
Every time I boot it,
it complains "ERROR: cannot start ntp-client as net.eth0 could not be
started".

The laptop is old enough that the ethernet connection is by a Xircom
pcmcia card, and this
works well except for ntp-client.  The claim that "net.eth0 could not be
started" puzzles
me since, after the machine boots, ifconfig gives

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:10:A4:FE:EC:4C 
          inet addr:192.168.1.105  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:445 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:74 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:70632 (68.9 Kb)  TX bytes:8288 (8.0 Kb)
          Interrupt:3 Base address:0x300

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback 
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:46 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:46 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:3207 (3.1 Kb)  TX bytes:3207 (3.1 Kb)

Thinking that the error message means that ntp-client is being started
before eth0 is completely
configured, I have followed the advice in
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_NTP and modified my
depend() in /etc/init.d/ntp-client to

depend() {
        before cron portmap
        need net
        after net.eth0
        use dns logger
}

but this has had no effect.

I would appreciate any thoughts on what the error message means, and how
to get ntp-client
working.

Thanks,

John Blinka
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