Hi, I have a very old Dell P150ST laptop that I try to maintain Gentoo on. Every time I boot it, it complains "ERROR: cannot start ntp-client as net.eth0 could not be started".
The laptop is old enough that the ethernet connection is by a Xircom pcmcia card, and this works well except for ntp-client. The claim that "net.eth0 could not be started" puzzles me since, after the machine boots, ifconfig gives eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:A4:FE:EC:4C inet addr:192.168.1.105 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:445 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:74 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:70632 (68.9 Kb) TX bytes:8288 (8.0 Kb) Interrupt:3 Base address:0x300 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:46 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:46 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:3207 (3.1 Kb) TX bytes:3207 (3.1 Kb) Thinking that the error message means that ntp-client is being started before eth0 is completely configured, I have followed the advice in http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_NTP and modified my depend() in /etc/init.d/ntp-client to depend() { before cron portmap need net after net.eth0 use dns logger } but this has had no effect. I would appreciate any thoughts on what the error message means, and how to get ntp-client working. Thanks, John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list