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On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Spidey / Claudio <spideybr@×××××.com>wrote: |
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> >Complementing James comment, when I messed with Gentoo on a notebook I |
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> >also tried the confusing and troublesome way: configuring wi-fi to |
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> >connect at boot time. It was REALLY a challenge, maintaining a |
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> >realistic configuration file, which would let you boot with network up |
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> >equally while home and while at work. At the end of the day, I just |
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> >regressed to no boot configuration and went with wicd or |
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> >NetworkManager. |
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> >When I came back to configuring my desktop, it felt strange to run |
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> >dhcp at boot time, I even tried migrating a wired box to |
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> >NetworkManager, but ended with a static config nevertheless. |
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I'm curious, why is running DHCP at boot time not recommended? Before |
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running any sort of network manager I ran dhcp on boot (I'll admit it, it |
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was awkward when I wasn't wired in, since I would have to wait for dhcp to |
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time out). It wasn't too terrible since I only had about 3 or 4 wireless |
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networks I could possibly connect to. Between the Gentoo Handbook and Google |
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I didn't have a terrible time setting it up; heck, I didn't even know there |
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was a better way of managing wireless networks! |
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