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Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:18:37 +0200
From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: why a manual dhcpcd eth0 is needed?
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On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 10:13:53 -0400
Valmor de Almeida <val.gentoo@gmail.com> 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