On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 10:13:53 -0400 Valmor de Almeida <val.gen...@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.mckin...@gmail.com
