> > Huh! I built and installed that on the Sony and that might be part of the > problem, because I just checked on this workstation and it's already > installed. > > I'll check to see if the new installation on the Sony borked an existing > one. Stay tuned for the results ... >
We discussed ifplug / hotplug before on this thread. The problem could be with iflplugd as it should configure and deconfigure upon physical link detection or removal. If memory serves. eth0 on the Sony was coming up with the static ip address.that is configured for it. Ifplugd uses native ifup / ifdown, upon boot if no cable was detected, eth0 should not be brought up by ifplugd. In fact, by default eth0 should not be enabled: *-a | --no-auto* Do not enable interface automatically (default: off) I found this thread ( http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/how-tho-configure-my-system-to-start-wlan0-instead-of-eth0-847316/) where the user doesn't want eth0 to be enabled upon boot to stop eth0 from attempting to connect via DHCP before connecting to the wifi net. Perhaps this might be a workaround? "I have installed ifplugd, which is a daemon who connects to ethernet only if a cable is connected. With Gentoo this works out of the box. With Slackware ifplugd is started after rc.inet1 (probably). So the the system still tries to connect via ethernet before connecting to the wireless network." "I've searched by myself and found the following solution. I disabled the entry for ifplugd to be started in rc.local and inserted it in rc.M instead of the section where rc.inet1 is started. Here the section in rc.M" Code: ... # ifplugd starten bevor rc.inet1 startet if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.ifplugd ]; then # Start ifplugd echo "Starting ifplugd: /etc/rc.d/rc.ifplugd start" /etc/rc.d/rc.ifplugd start fi # Initialize the networking hardware. #if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 ]; then # . /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 #fi] . _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
