Abraham, I think what you may want to do is adjust the DHCP timeout for eth0. For ethernet devices, it's pretty good to assume that if after 10 seconds it doesn't receive DHCP it probably wont. So on my laptop, in /etc/conf.d/net I have:
dhcpcd_eth0="-t 10" Which will timeout eth0 after 10 seconds, thus making the system boot time faster. Now what you can do to solve the wlan0 problem is: 1. Add ndiswrapper to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.# (whatever # your kernel is, either 2.4 or 2.6) 2. cd /etc/init.d/ 3. ln -s net.eth0 net.wlan0 4. Edit /etc/conf.d/net to do what you want for the wlan0 interface. Now, lets assume for a minute that neither interface is able to get valid DHCP information. I've solved this problem on mine by enabling APIPA (automatic private IP address) should DHCP fail. In /etc/conf.d/net you can do that as well. For my eth0 device on my laptop I have: config_eth0=( "dhcp" ) dhcpcd_eth0="-t 10" fallback_eth0=( "apipa" ) Some examples you may want to follow are in the Modular Networking docs here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?style=printable&part=4&chap=3 Hope this helps. - Brian On Wed, March 7, 2007 1:25 pm, Abraham Gyorgy wrote: > Hello again :) > > > I've switched my networking from wired "eth0" to "wlan0". I'm using > ndiswrapper with Win32 driver and an USB WiFi adapter. Everything is fine, > but... When I set up my Gentoo installation, I've added net.eth0 to > default runlevel (it provices the networking in the init system). My > ethernet driver (forcedeth nvidia nforce2 chip) is compiled in, using > DHCP. All I > had to do is to add net.eth0. Now when my system boots it is waiting 1-2 > mins for DHCP, then goes forward, but (in the init system) there is no > networking, so Samba and other stuff doesnt work. I want to replace this > thing, > > 1) ndiswrapper module should go to /etc/modules.autoload folder > 2) then wlan0 device appears, I want to do "iwlist wlan0 scan", then > DHCP for wlan0 > 3) all this stuff should go nice to init system, eth0 should be removed, > so wlan0 should provide the init system with "net". > > Now I wait for eth0 dhcp'ing, then modprobe, iwlist, and dhcpcd by hand, > but it is time consuming and not so nice. What to do exactly guys? > > > Thanks a lot! > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
