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 1RHjUM-0003vf-CZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 21:52:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C2FE821C064; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 21:52:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BD3321C02D for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 21:51:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gye5 with SMTP id 5so6307632gye.40 for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 14:51:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=s4wOOV3nR/JU4XuRxyeD6wvP/g0u8+96vfElCU0txmg=; b=NxIIJFXwvUJgarOWFnb4OR7BFQs6KvKB0H8vglTX6Ore7+FqoPkqFdJoqjcuQUvJgI KNzDU4tJ5BK/RN4Y3GRKqDZG6Y5VbTPvQiCAeWml386FuYuH++vXKh11eNWVrAYjMhih 49Z5l8D7PrO2YeyXt3d+/ayZ0jbgP+MatDHbw= Received: by 10.100.131.3 with SMTP id e3mr825951and.41.1319320277834; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 14:51:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.10.6] (c-68-32-251-200.hsd1.tn.comcast.net. [68.32.251.200]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t7sm48169222anh.15.2011.10.22.14.51.16 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 22 Oct 2011 14:51:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4EA33ACF.5090008@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:51:11 -0400 From: Valmor de Almeida User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110816 Lightning/1.0b3pre Lanikai/3.1.10 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: why a manual dhcpcd eth0 is needed? References: <4EA24FE7.2080408@gmail.com> <4EA2CFA1.9000609@gmail.com> <20111022201837.6dd31fc1@rohan.example.com> In-Reply-To: <20111022201837.6dd31fc1@rohan.example.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: da45bcf555eb79d1d4226fc56bc0c4e7 On 10/22/2011 02:18 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > 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 > > > > Any inputs on why I need to issue dhcpcd eth0 for this particular install. The ethernet card is Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5764M Gigabit Ethernet PCIe. I have the right driver built into the kernel. All works but as I said, wicd does work from boot. After logging in I need to get an IP address manually. Don't know what I am missing. Thanks, -- Valmor