Hello, On 22 august, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm using the MDK 8.2 on my laptop (Inspiron 8200), where I'm using > DHCP. But when I start my laptop outside of my network, the eth0 > activation make a bunch of retry to find a DHCP server before cancelling > ( Time-out after 1 minute or something like that). Is it possible to > find a fix for this? Detect the cable maybe ? Start the dhcp client in > background ? Shorter Time-out ?
First, there's an mii module in kernel 2.4 (not for all NIC yet, but the most common), that can detect if a cable is properly plugged in on a live ethernet link, or not. It can be used to see if it's worthy to wait at all for a dhcp (or other) reply. Note that there are tools (Debian has laptop-net) that can automatically recognize on which network we are (from MAC adresses of packets passing by) and use a known IP, or revert to DHCP on an unknown network. This is a must for people who move their laptop between two or more networks (or Wi-fi). This is what Mandrake needs to become smarter about the change or lack of network at boot time, and even when the machine is already up, too. -- Stéphane Gourichon - Labo. d'Informatique de Paris 6 - AnimatLab http://animatlab.lip6.fr/ - philo du dimanche http://amphi-gouri.org/
