Hi, I've been using wicd for quite awhile on my laptop and it works fine with both wired and wireless interfaces. However I'm using it more lately where I have to boot the machine from scratch. In this case I face a rather long delay once or possibly twice during boot. Basically, the boot scripts say the networking interfaces aren't turned on so it attempts to run dhcpd. I do not enable nor have I even added net.eth0 or net.wlan0 in rc-update. (I think that's correct, and it does work.)
Anyway, I'm wondering if this delay is normal behavior for wicd? Everything works fine but I have to wait 30-60 second, once or twice, for dhcpd while booting. I suspect that's not necessary. Getting on the network once I'm up is reasonably fast. The only thing I found Googling delay & wicd was people waiting 3 minutes to find wireless networks. I don't have that problem. Not sure what data to provide other than the files below. Cheers, Mark slinky ~ # ls -al /etc/init.d/* | grep net lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Mar 19 2011 /etc/init.d/net.eth0 -> net.lo -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 16741 Feb 23 2012 /etc/init.d/net.lo lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Sep 11 2011 /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 -> net.lo -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2219 Feb 23 2012 /etc/init.d/netmount -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6962 Feb 23 2012 /etc/init.d/network slinky ~ # slinky ~ # cat /etc/conf.d/net #config_eth0="192.168.1.55 netmask 255.255.255.0" #routes_eth0="default via 192.168.1.1" #modules="wpa_supplicant" #config_wlan0="192.168.1.100 netmask 255.255.255.0" #routes_wlan0="default via 192.168.1.1" slinky ~ # slinky ~ # cat /etc/wicd/manager-settings.conf [Settings] backend = external wireless_interface = wlan0 wired_interface = eth0 wpa_driver = wext always_show_wired_interface = True use_global_dns = False global_dns_1 = None global_dns_2 = None global_dns_3 = None global_dns_dom = None global_search_dom = None auto_reconnect = True debug_mode = 0 wired_connect_mode = 1 signal_display_type = 0 should_verify_ap = 1 dhcp_client = 0 link_detect_tool = 0 flush_tool = 0 sudo_app = 0 prefer_wired = False main_width = 739 main_height = 755 netprop_width = 484 netprop_height = 600 pref_width = 561 pref_height = 540 show_never_connect = True slinky ~ #
