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 1GPphA-0004i3-FI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:12:08 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8K0AwkD013704; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:10:59 GMT Received: from desiato.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8K05PBI003911 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:05:26 GMT Received: from hactar.digimed.co.uk (hactar.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.2]) by desiato.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4937635FD for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 01:05:24 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 01:05:21 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can the new baselayout handle multiple networks seamlessly? Message-ID: <20060920010521.40cf553f@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1158706691.19961.17.camel@bunyip> References: <1158706691.19961.17.camel@bunyip> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.5.0-rc3 (GTK+ 2.10.3; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_bTgp1MgP.O.Z27aMHo3u3g/"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 03736faa-2507-4f13-b720-5663c9004190 X-Archives-Hash: 35c1e281bb9ac7906839da6c525c27e2 --Sig_bTgp1MgP.O.Z27aMHo3u3g/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 06:58:11 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: > Also, is there an integrated way to plug in a network cable and have a > config RELIABLY recognised and trigger the necessary actions? Its not a > good look to arrive at lecture in front of 30-50 people and struggle to > connect to the local network, which seems par for the course for gentoo! emerge ifplugd, but don't try to configure it, Gentoo's networking scripts handle that automatically. Set your wired interface to use DHCP and it should set itself up automatically. If you want something else done when connecting or disconnecting the cable, such as shutting down wireless or restarting services, look at the preup/postup/predown/postdown functions in /etc/conf.d/net.example. --=20 Neil Bothwick I'd prefer the non-smoking lifeboat, please. --Sig_bTgp1MgP.O.Z27aMHo3u3g/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFEIXEum4al0N1GQMRAryzAJ4g+G8N9RJ7bNGEwRFu8kRxDS1Q9wCeMqT9 B1T2rl41+6G3khf8Xl5Zrjk= =SWKa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_bTgp1MgP.O.Z27aMHo3u3g/-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list