Okay, I misunderstood dhcpcd to be a dhcp *server* only, rather than being a *client* only. Suddenly, it all makes sense ... and I begin to wonder if I spent a few late nights too many playing with my kernel instead of sleeping. >_<
I played around some more, and I can launch services from init.d all day, and ifconfig up/down still is broken. However, the following do work: /etc/sysconfig/network-devices/ifup eth0 /etc/sysconfig/network-devices/ifdown eth0 ... I just got this far in typing this email, and I think I know where I screwed up. In ifconfig.eth0/dhclient, I left out the <add additional parameters here> bits in DHCP_START and DHCP_STOP. Time to reboot back into LFS and see if I can make this work now. :-P Re getting wireless to work: I have iwconfig built and in place. I have a working Ubuntu partition on this machine (which is where I am typing this email from, actually) where wireless is working via a closed-source driver (Intel PRO/Wireless 3945). So, theoretically I have all the pieces. We'll see what gets thrown at me in practice. ;-) -- William Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We need a special holiday to honor the countless kind souls with unsecured networks named 'linksys'." -- Randall Munroe -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
