On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Dennis Cote <denn...@harding.ca> wrote: > On Thursday, March 13, 2014 9:56:05 AM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: >> >> The wicd deamon should setup eth0 within 30 seconds on 2nd boot. >> (first boot there is a slight delay as the ssh key's are generated). >> > > I had rebooted many times. I hadn't paid any attention to the wicd program > since it seemed to be for WIFI which I am not using. > > I had to open the preferences and check the option to always show wired > interfaces (I also checked always switch to wired connection when available) > before I saw the eth0 connection. I then clicked the connect button and > waited until it finished. It still didn't connect, but after I rebooted > again, it did connect using dhcp. Since then it has been connecting on each > boot. > >> >> If you uncomment out the eth0 interface in /etc/network/interfaces >> boot time falls from 15seconds to 35ish.. >> > > I'm not sure what you mean by this. "unccomment out" is ambiguous. Did you > mean "uncomment", or did you mean "comment out".
The first. > Is it faster to boot with the eth0 defined in /etc/network/interfaces, or is > it faster with the eth0 section commented out? Why? Is it redundant to > define eth0 here, and then have wicd also connect eth0; or does having > defined in the interafces file cause wicd to skip its redundant setup later? When, eth0 is defined in /etc/network/interfaces, the login prompt (serial/video) can be delayed for up to 2 minutes as the system attempts to get an ip. If a cable is NOT connected it will wait the full 2 minutes. So by allowing the wicd/systemd deamon to take care of it, we get the login prompt must faster > > On an unrelated issue, how do you setup the timezone for the time display on > the LXDE desktop? I have set /etc/timezone. I have also used tzselect and > added the TZ environment variable to my .profile as suggested in the output > of tzselect. It does not appear that my .profile file is being executed > though. I have a user bin directory in my /home/debian directory, and it is > not being added to the path as it seems it should be by reading the .profile > file. I checked and I don't have a .bash_profile or .bash_login file which > would prevent .profile from executing. Any ideas? root@beaglebone:/# rm /etc/localtime root@beaglebone:/# ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Central /etc/localtime root@beaglebone:/# date Thu Mar 13 12:13:06 CDT 2014 Give lxde a minute or two to update.. Regards, -- Robert Nelson http://www.rcn-ee.com/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
