On Monday 01 Aug 2011 21:38:41 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > 2011/8/1 José Romildo Malaquias <j.romi...@gmail.com>: > > Hello. > > > > I have two network interfaces on my notebook: one wired (eth0) and one > > wireless (wlan0). I am running ~amd64 on it. > > > > I want two gentoo boot entries in grub: one (the default softlevel) > > which starts wired networking (and not wireless), and another that > > starts the wireless network (and not the wired). > > > > For the later I have created a new softlevel named wireless, with all > > services from default, except net.eth0. The default has net.eth0, but > > not net.wlan0. Booting with default works as expected, but booting with > > wireless starts both interfaces. > > > > In /etc/rc.conf I have the lines: > > > > rc_depend_strict="NO" > > rc_hotplug="!net*" > > > > Any clues? > > This is for a laptop? Do you use a desktop environment? If that's the > case, why don't you use NetworkManager or ConnMan, and forget about > having to do black script magic to set up your network dynamically? > > I'm genuinely curious, I just want to understand why someone would go > through the pain of something like this, when there are several tools > already that just work automatically. > > In my laptop I use NetworkManager, and besides I suspend all the time. > I've been in five different countries the last month and a half, and > I've been connecting to different networks all the time (wireless and > wired), and NetworkManager just works. I don't have to do anything, > just plug the ethernet cable or select the wireless network, set the > WEP/WPA key, and that's it. > > Maybe you have a really wild or weird use case, but then I'm really > curious: Why do you want yo set up a different softlevel just to > change between wired and wireless networks?
sys-apps/ifplugd will bring up eth0 only if a cable is plugged in. -- Regards, Mick
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