Hi,
I have a very old Dell P150ST laptop that I try to maintain Gentoo on.
Every time I boot it,
it complains "ERROR: cannot start ntp-client as net.eth0 could not be
started".
The laptop is old enough that the ethernet connection is by a Xircom
pcmcia card, and this
works well except for ntp-client. The claim that "net.eth0 could not be
started" puzzles
me since, after the machine boots, ifconfig gives
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:A4:FE:EC:4C
inet addr:192.168.1.105 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:445 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:74 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:70632 (68.9 Kb) TX bytes:8288 (8.0 Kb)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x300
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:46 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:46 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3207 (3.1 Kb) TX bytes:3207 (3.1 Kb)
Thinking that the error message means that ntp-client is being started
before eth0 is completely
configured, I have followed the advice in
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_NTP and modified my
depend() in /etc/init.d/ntp-client to
depend() {
before cron portmap
need net
after net.eth0
use dns logger
}
but this has had no effect.
I would appreciate any thoughts on what the error message means, and how
to get ntp-client
working.
Thanks,
John Blinka
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