From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GIWWW-0006k7-2b for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:18:56 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7UKFt1i015346; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:15:55 GMT Received: from elasmtp-junco.atl.sa.earthlink.net (elasmtp-junco.atl.sa.earthlink.net [209.86.89.63]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7UKFs9p003942 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:15:54 GMT DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=dk20050327; d=earthlink.net; b=ZMtABJr6FfiR+cgDQ03S99l5/Lv2huh5D8rkGtjygID95cuG+EomZBBmeFSRhDYi; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-ELNK-Trace:X-Originating-IP; Received: from h-66-167-64-144.chcgilgm.dynamic.covad.net ([66.167.64.144] helo=[127.0.0.1]) by elasmtp-junco.atl.sa.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1GIWTZ-0005Lk-EI for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:15:53 -0400 Message-ID: <44F5F1DA.90408@earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:15:22 -0500 From: Chris Forsyth User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] long boot time with network cable References: <44F26C6E.9090503@earthlink.net> <1156777846.9075.14.camel@laptop> In-Reply-To: <1156777846.9075.14.camel@laptop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: aa225bf00f39423c036e2a21d908c5a074bf435c0eb9d478e6a9bebd62fba1b02ff3b0b99f23f6a5fc949decc2ffc78c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 66.167.64.144 X-Archives-Salt: 930ea491-ee98-4a9d-bfa8-442351b2201c X-Archives-Hash: 636173ac5f65bde9d736cf1aa7de5c2b that worked like a charm. Sorry for the long delay. Been a busy few days Thanks Homer Chris Homer Parker wrote: > On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 23:09 -0500, Chris Forsyth wrote: > >> Hey everyone >> I'm hoping there is an easy fix for this. Almost done with the >> install on my notebook (X-server and KDE left) but during boot if I >> don't have a my network cable plugged in it takes forever. Is there >> anyway to break the DHCP request during boot? I rather not use a static >> IP address. >> > > In /etc/conf.d/net, alter your configuration to look like: > > iface_eth0="dhcp" > dhcpcd_eth0="-t 5" > > That will have it time out after 5 seconds. /etc/conf.d/net.example is > a good read ;) > > -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list