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From: John Jolet <john@×××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] turning off dhcp
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:21:14
Message-Id: 9124EB54-3CAB-4E98-80FA-E0E19037F855@jolet.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] turning off dhcp by maxim wexler
1 On Mar 20, 2006, at 2:03 PM, maxim wexler wrote:
2
3 > Hi all,
4 >
5 > on a new install w/2.6.15 kernel on an i586(K6-2) box
6 > I get an ugly red message on boot:
7 >
8 > "Cannot default to dhcp, no dhcp module loaded, no
9 > config for eth0...net mount was not started"
10 >
11 > I use dialup, the ethernet card, a 3com59x will be
12 > used with a crossover cable and ftp to another box, an
13 > AMD Sempron running 2.6.12.
14 >
15 > I left the /etc/conf.d/(init.d?)net on both machines
16 > UN-edited but only get the error message on the new
17 > install on the i586.
18 >
19 > How do get my new system to turn off this error?
20 >
21 > -mw
22
23 if you put something for eth0 in /etc/conf.d/net (look at the
24 net.example and read the docs for syntaxes), it will stop trying to
25 use dhcp. if there's no config for an interface, it tries to use
26 dhcp, but during your install, you failed to emerge dhcpcd.
27 --
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