Ok, I'm out of ideas on this one.
On my laptop, I always had an issue with eth0; during boot, I got a
warning "no configuration found for eth0, assuming dhcp" despite the
fact that in /etc/conf.d/net I had config_eth0=( "dhcp" ). (btw, the
same config has always worked fine in any other computer, ie no
warnings). That has been like that for ages, but I did not care too much
since in the end what I wanted for eth0 was dhcp, and that is what I was
getting anyway, and I never bothered to find out more (yes, I should
have).
Now I don't want to start eth0 at boot anymore (only wlan0), so I
commented out the config_eth0=( "dhcp" ) in /etc/conf.d/net, and did a
rc-update del net.eth0 default (which correctly deleted net.eth0 from
the default runlevel). Sure enough, net.eth0 is not part of any runlevel
now:
# rc-update -a show
acpid | default
bootmisc | boot
checkfs | boot
checkroot | boot
clock | boot
consolefont | boot
hdparm | default
hostname | boot
iptables | default
keymaps | boot
local | default nonetwork
localmount | boot
modules | boot
net.lo | boot
netmount | default
net.tap100 | default
net.wlan0 | default
rmnologin | boot
splash | default
sshd | default
sysklogd | default
urandom | boot
vixie-cron | default
xfs | default
Nonetheless, at boot I keep getting the "no configuration found for eth0,
assuming dhcp" warning, and it stubbornly tries to bring up eth0 using
dhcp. As far as I can tell, no other initscript depends on net.eth0 (but
I may not be looking in the right place).
Any ideas?
Thank you.
