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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dhcp delays when booting (wicd)
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:09:59
Message-Id: 20121016220833.7eb6bd39@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] dhcp delays when booting (wicd) by Mark Knecht
1 On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:38:43 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
2
3 > I've been using wicd for quite awhile on my laptop and it works fine
4 > with both wired and wireless interfaces. However I'm using it more
5 > lately where I have to boot the machine from scratch. In this case I
6 > face a rather long delay once or possibly twice during boot.
7 > Basically, the boot scripts say the networking interfaces aren't
8 > turned on so it attempts to run dhcpd. I do not enable nor have I even
9 > added net.eth0 or net.wlan0 in rc-update. (I think that's correct, and
10 > it does work.)
11
12 Do you have this in /etc/rc.conf?
13
14 rc_hotplug="!net.*"
15
16 Without it, hotplug will try to start the network even if the net.*
17 scripts aren't in your runlevel.
18
19
20 --
21 Neil Bothwick
22
23 Top Oxymorons Number 41: Good grief

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