On 10/22/2011 02:18 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > 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 > > > > 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
