[gentoo-user] Cancelling eth0 start

2003-10-14 Thread BlueRibbon
Hi. I usually have my laptop connected to some network that gives the ip dinamically (dhcp), but sometimes I use it on a no-network environment. In the latter situation, while booting, I have to wait some minutes while the system tries to get an IP address for my machine, until it fails starti

Re: [gentoo-user] Cancelling eth0 start

2003-10-14 Thread Nathaniel
You can put "-t 5" in the dhcp options in /etc/conf.d/net. This sets the timeout for dhcp to 5 seconds (you can adjust accordingly). However, I would love to see the gentoo network start scripts to be able to detect link, and skip an interface if no link is found. I think they may be working on

Re: [gentoo-user] Cancelling eth0 start

2003-10-14 Thread Chris Bare
> > You can put "-t 5" in the dhcp options in /etc/conf.d/net. This sets > the timeout for dhcp to 5 seconds (you can adjust accordingly). > > However, I would love to see the gentoo network start scripts to be able > to detect link, and skip an interface if no link is found. I think they > may

Re: [gentoo-user] Cancelling eth0 start

2003-10-14 Thread BlueRibbon
Thank you all (this sub-thread and the other) for the quick answer! :) That really helped me. Chris Bare wrote: You can put "-t 5" in the dhcp options in /etc/conf.d/net. This sets the timeout for dhcp to 5 seconds (you can adjust accordingly). However, I would love to see the gentoo network start

Re: [gentoo-user] Cancelling eth0 start

2003-10-14 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, Now the long answer. I'm using a extra service (in boot) in witch you can choose with grub and i thin lilo also witch kind of network you will start, with thoose scripts you can change everything you can image. Internal network, wireless, no netwerk and so on even the firwall settings. How i

Re: [gentoo-user] Cancelling eth0 start

2003-10-15 Thread Kai Lindenberg
Hi Blue, Am Dienstag, 14. Oktober 2003 22:19 schrieb BlueRibbon: > I usually have my laptop connected to some network that gives > the ip dinamically (dhcp), but sometimes I use it on a > no-network environment. In the latter situation, while booting, > I have to wait some minutes while the system

Re: [gentoo-user] Cancelling eth0 start

2003-10-15 Thread BlueRibbon
Thanks, that was a great help! Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, Now the long answer. I'm using a extra service (in boot) in witch you can choose with grub and i thin lilo also witch kind of network you will start, with thoose scripts you can change everything you can image. Internal network, wire