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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: why a manual dhcpcd eth0 is needed?
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 09:18:56 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <j7tn7n$7rv$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EA24FE7.2080408@gmail.com>

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"




  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-22  6:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-22  5:08 [gentoo-user] why a manual dhcpcd eth0 is needed? Valmor de Almeida
2011-10-22  6:18 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2011-10-22 14:13   ` [gentoo-user] " Valmor de Almeida
2011-10-22 18:18     ` Alan McKinnon
2011-10-22 21:51       ` Valmor de Almeida
2011-10-23 19:21         ` Neil Bothwick
2011-10-23 20:01           ` Valmor de Almeida
2011-10-23 21:19             ` Mick
2011-10-23 21:35               ` Valmor de Almeida
2011-10-23 22:45                 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-10-24  2:10                   ` Valmor de Almeida
2011-10-24  7:50                     ` Neil Bothwick

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