On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 10:42 +1000, Richard Watson wrote:
> Hi, I recently upgraded my system with emerge -uDN world. Afterwards I
> found that net.eth0 was grabbing my firewire port (ieee1394) and I
> needed to create net.eth2 for my NIC as net.eth1 was being assigned to
> my wireless. My problem is that although "rc-update show" indicates
> all my interfaces are NOT being loaded other than net.lo at boot
> (which is what I want) my system keeps trying to start net.eth0
> net.eth1 net.eth2 in the " default" run level. Can anybody help? It's
> very frustrating waiting for these interfaces to try and connect
> before timing out.


device initiated services!  the topic came up recently.  I hated it for
a while because it was starting bluetooth for me automatically!

there are a couple of things to tweak in /etc/conf.d/rc.  Set
RC_PLUG_SERVICES="!net.*" and set RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING="lo"

read the comments for more info!

HTH,
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

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