#3145: Unify the service configuration files for Dhclient (ISC DHCP) and Dhcpcd
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Reporter: willimm | Owner: blfs-b...@…
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 6.5
Component: BOOK | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Keywords:
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Comment(by willimm):
Replying to [comment:6 d...@…]:
> I don't really much care about 'radical changes' to the boot scripts as
they are downright easy to change in both LFS and BLFS, if justified
(besides, they won't be all that invasive). I just want them to work
well. Network Manager is one topic that comes up frequently and if NM can
handle linkstate with DHCP, then we should let it and not duplicate its
functionality in our boot scripts. If you have the time, please dig into
it and see what it is capable of. If not, give me three weeks to finish
up on IcedTea6, OpenOffice, and possibly Xorg (if Ken isn't already on it)
and we'll bring the discussion to BLFS-dev so that we can get more input
from others who have made it work in the past. If NM works as I believe
it can, then I think ONBOOT can remain, and simply be set to "no" once NM
is in place. Only change the config file name for dhcpcd/dhclient to dhcp
as originally proposed, so that the ONBOOT variable only controls whether
the scripts or NM take care of the interface.
I think you are getting confused. This is not about Network Manager
(which, with a few changes to the source code, and a new bootscript, just
works), this is about the networking part of Gnome-system-tools and
system-tools-backends. That is a lot more compilcated, and needs tweaking
to the bootscript system, not just the backends themself.
Additionally, I have one more request: Wifi support. As of now, there is
no way tell which SSID the wireless card should use via the network
scripts, and there is no support for encrypted wireless networks. However,
I think I've found a hint that may help with implementing this support:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/wpa-service.txt
Yes, it's old, but still useful. This would also require wpa-supplicant to
be added to the book.
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