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Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: why a manual dhcpcd eth0 is needed?
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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"