On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 06:58:11 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: > Also, is there an integrated way to plug in a network cable and have a > config RELIABLY recognised and trigger the necessary actions? Its not a > good look to arrive at lecture in front of 30-50 people and struggle to > connect to the local network, which seems par for the course for gentoo!
emerge ifplugd, but don't try to configure it, Gentoo's networking scripts handle that automatically. Set your wired interface to use DHCP and it should set itself up automatically. If you want something else done when connecting or disconnecting the cable, such as shutting down wireless or restarting services, look at the preup/postup/predown/postdown functions in /etc/conf.d/net.example. -- Neil Bothwick I'd prefer the non-smoking lifeboat, please.
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