Re: [gentoo-user] Can I make dhcpcd run in background when trying to get an ip address?

2005-09-25 Thread John Jolet
On Sunday 25 September 2005 08:57, Luk van den Borne wrote: > Maybe you should have a look at ifplugd. It will background the networking > part and bring up those interfaces that are actually plugged in. I'm using that for my wired network. works great. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I make dhcpcd run in background when trying to get an ip address?

2005-09-25 Thread Luk van den Borne
Maybe you should have a look at ifplugd. It will background the networking part and bring up those interfaces that are actually plugged in. Luk van den BorneOn 9/25/05, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 20:52 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:> I have a computer with both

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I make dhcpcd run in background when trying to get an ip address?

2005-09-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 20:52 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a computer with both a wired and wireless network card. At home I > use the wired connection, but when out I use the wireless. [snip] > Is there some way I can have dhcpcd to run in the background, and to > provide an IP address t

[gentoo-user] Can I make dhcpcd run in background when trying to get an ip address?

2005-09-24 Thread michael
I have a computer with both a wired and wireless network card. At home I use the wired connection, but when out I use the wireless. Normally, I use the default net.eth0 for my wired connection, and my own script for wireless : ifconfig eth1 up iwconfig eth1 essid "foo" dh