On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 08:26 +0100, Frederic Detienne wrote: > Problem 2 -- null vs. dhcp > --------- > > I would like NetworkManager to acquire an IP address for my wireless > interface through DHCP. OTOH, I would like Gentoo net scripts to NOT do > that at all since the gentoo scripts have no idea how to associate to > the AP's I use (in particular, there is not machine authentication, just > WPA user authentication on my APs). > > If I set up > > config_eth1=( "dhcp" ) > > then gentoo tries to get a DHCP address at boot and I get: > > * Starting eth1 > * Bringing up eth1 > * dhcp > * Running dhcpcd ... > Error, timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response [ !! ] > > Besides, dhcpcd sometimes keep running and hijacks DHCP responses that > should normally go to dhcbdb/dhclient (i.e. two dhcp client running at > the same time for the same interface). > > Now if I set up > > config_eth1=( "null" ) > > I do not get any annoying boot messages nor long delays and dhcpcd is > never launched... but NetworkManager does not launch dhclient after > wpa_supplicant either. And though the interface is properly associated, > I obviously do not get an IP address. > > Now my question: what should I use for a proper configuration ?
I go one step further... /etc/init.d/net.eth* are symlinks to /etc/init.d/net.lo Until Gentoo base-layout becomes a little more NM friendly I just delete the symlinks and thus only the NetworkManager init script gets started for my interfaces. I imagine it will stay that way until one of us makes the net.lo NetworkManager friendly. I'd love to hear what others do here though. Steev perhaps? > I understand NM 0.7 may bring the ability to control interfaces > directly... in that case, it should support > > 1- specific interface parameters to be set (here, bringing the radio up) > 2- configuration override (here, system-wide net config saying "null" > but still have NM start dhclient) > > but there may already be a way to do this cleanly today. Can anyone help > me ? I'd love to hear some kind of status update on that stuff too if anybody would like to volunteer it! tOnY _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
