[gentoo-user] network services break fbsplash silent mode

[gentoo-user] network services break fbsplash silent mode

[Qiangning Hong]

On my laptop, I am using silent mode of fbsplash during boot.
However, as I have wireless access in my office and wired access in my
home (both dhcp), there is always one of the network services, either
net.lan or net.wlan, will fail.  This will take fbsplash into verbose
mode when the service fails.  It is a bit annoying.  Is there any
advice to keep the silent mode on and still can auto detect the
network access?
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Re: [gentoo-user] network services break fbsplash silent mode

[Steve Walsh]

Hi Qiangning

You can specify a "fallback" setting in net.ethX where if DHCP fails it will 
take another setting. The bhandbook at 
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4&chap=2
explains how. I'm not sure if this will fix your problem, but there's a good 
chance it might.

Steve

Qiangning Hong wrote:
> On my laptop, I am using silent mode of fbsplash during boot.
> However, as I have wireless access in my office and wired access in my
> home (both dhcp), there is always one of the network services, either
> net.lan or net.wlan, will fail.  This will take fbsplash into verbose
> mode when the service fails.  It is a bit annoying.  Is there any
> advice to keep the silent mode on and still can auto detect the
> network access?
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Re: [gentoo-user] network services break fbsplash silent mode

[Peter Gille]

On 10/14/06, Qiangning Hong <hongqn@gmail.com> wrote:
> On my laptop, I am using silent mode of fbsplash during boot.
> However, as I have wireless access in my office and wired access in my
> home (both dhcp), there is always one of the network services, either
> net.lan or net.wlan, will fail.  This will take fbsplash into verbose
> mode when the service fails.  It is a bit annoying.  Is there any
> advice to keep the silent mode on and still can auto detect the
> network access?
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> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>


install ifplugd. It will automaticly detect when a cable is plugged
into your network card and initialise your network. I think it will
work similarily for your wlan as well. You may want to configure the
wlan so it doesn't autoconnect to any rouge APs, but that is a minor
annoyance. The process is described near the bottom of
/etc/conf.d/net.example
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