Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Help

[Willie Wong <wwong@Princeton.EDU>]

On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 09:01:40PM -0400, Penguin Lover Colleen Beamer squawked:
> Next, the wiki said to put these lines into the /etc/conf.d/net file (which
> had nothing in it because it assumes dhcp):
> 
> 
> 
> modules=( "wpa_supplicant" )
> 
> wpa_supplicant_wlan0="-Dndiswrapper"
> wpa_timeout_wlan0=60
> 
> Again, these lines have been modified to suit my situation.
> 
> However, if I boot the laptop without the ethernet cable connected, it hangs
> when running the dhcpcd daemon.
> 
> I'm sure I'm missing something, but I don't know what.
> 

Did you remove net.eth0 from the default runlevel? i.e. 
  rc-update del net.eth0
If it is hanging at boot time it might be because it is trying to
connect to eth0 using dhcp, which is obviously not available without
the ethernet cable. 

W
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