Am 01.09.2005 09:41 schrieb Stefan Frank: > I just did a emerge -u dhcp and I was able to do /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart > without problems. Try to clear the cache of dhcpcd under /var/lib/dhcpc (?) > and to start it again.
Thanks for that suggestion, I will try later. > Maybe you should consider using sys-apps/ifplugd. It's quite useful - it > starts the net.ethX only if the cable is plugged in. If there is a problem, > you just could remove the plug and the net.ethX is not started. I am using ifplugd, but when the cable is not connected, it tries to start my wifi connection with dhcp... > And you may not use Knoppix to solve such problems, there are > possibilities to append a boot option in GRUB/LILO (there was just a > thread about it) to boot into single mode. Thanks for that hint, too. :) Christoph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list