From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RHgBo-0003pY-Cn for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:21:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E837121C1E3; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:20:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E66421C28E for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:18:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyh5 with SMTP id 5so5923267wyh.40 for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:18:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ed2c4OGyhvESBV2guf1sT580jtU6VcCSS1N+HMcXZ6g=; b=sbNHb61p5uMJKDSH01Q1/IspVX7E7hWICRGSWORKpCmpHovOPP4VC4DMqedMri/vqG tQN4Ip3tok50iaFfrANFJmL+4EWrmUwvcG+ufA+IJqb+V8LYfbXPRQZRgChpJsWSh3vR DZanFjsh9ohbEYBozMdJF71TDgJ3sfDK0J5J8= Received: by 10.216.139.170 with SMTP id c42mr4616193wej.0.1319307528821; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:18:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rohan.example.com (196-215-42-108.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.215.42.108]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id gd18sm28894232wbb.5.2011.10.22.11.18.45 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:18:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:18:37 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: why a manual dhcpcd eth0 is needed? Message-ID: <20111022201837.6dd31fc1@rohan.example.com> In-Reply-To: <4EA2CFA1.9000609@gmail.com> References: <4EA24FE7.2080408@gmail.com> <4EA2CFA1.9000609@gmail.com> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.24.4; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: be1abf7ab19184801aeb0d25784002b1 On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 10:13:53 -0400 Valmor de Almeida wrote: > On 10/22/2011 02:18 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 10/22/2011 08:08 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > >> > >> Hello, > >> > >> On a recent gentoo install using wicd for network configuration, no > >> connection is established during boot. After logging in, I need to > >> issue > >> > >> dhcpcd eth0 > >> > >> to obtain an IP address and access the internet via ethernet. I > >> thought wicd would take care of that. I did not emerge dhcpcd, it > >> was emerged as a dependency of wicd. > >> > >> What am I missing? I have wicd starting during the boot runlevel. > > > > You probably don't have a correct /etc/conf.d/net file. Try: > > > > modules="dhcpcd" > > config_eth0="dhcp" > > > > > I have other gentoo laptops/machines and I typically leave this file > empty. They all work with wicd in wired and wireless mode. Correct. wicd does not use /etc/conf.d/net at all, it has it's own mechanisms. /etc/conf.d/net is used by the Gentoo network scripts, an entirely different thing from wicd -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com