On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Neil Bothwick <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:38:43 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> I've been using wicd for quite awhile on my laptop and it works fine >> with both wired and wireless interfaces. However I'm using it more >> lately where I have to boot the machine from scratch. In this case I >> face a rather long delay once or possibly twice during boot. >> Basically, the boot scripts say the networking interfaces aren't >> turned on so it attempts to run dhcpd. I do not enable nor have I even >> added net.eth0 or net.wlan0 in rc-update. (I think that's correct, and >> it does work.) > > Do you have this in /etc/rc.conf? > > rc_hotplug="!net.*" > > Without it, hotplug will try to start the network even if the net.* > scripts aren't in your runlevel. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > Top Oxymorons Number 41: Good grief
Ah, is that the one Joost was talking about?!@? Made the change and now I'm booting quickly and networking (wireless anyway as I'm not near a wired connector right now) is fine when I log into KDE. Thanks to both you and Joost. Cheers, Mark
