On Sunday 22 October 2006 14:12, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote 
about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Disabling net.ath0 backgrounding':
> > > I tried the following in /etc/conf.d/net :
> > >
> > > modules_ath0=( "!plug" )
> > >
> > > but it still goes into "backgrounding".
> > That shouldn't happen.
> >
> > Please post the output of:
> > grep -Ev '^[[:space:]]*(#.*)?$' /etc/conf.d/net
>
> modules="wpa_supplicant"
> wpa_supplicant_ath0="-Dmadwifi"
> config_ath0=( "192.168.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast
> 192.168.0.255" ) routes_ath0=( "default via 192.168.0.1" )
> essid_ath0="network2"
> modules_ath0=( "!plug" )

Around line 159 in my net.example says:
# By default don't wait for wpa_suppliant to associate and authenticate.
# If you would like to, so can specify how long in seconds
#associate_timeout_eth0=60
# A value of 0 means wait forever.

It may be possible that you need to set this variable to 0 to prevent 
backgrounding, independent of the ifplugd/netplug quashing.

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