When the system boots wicd calls dhcpcd and it looks for a lease. Not finding any because the ethernet cable's plugged in, the system continues booting.
For a reason yet to be discovered ... Real Soon Now ... while eth0 is UP and RUNNING with a broadcast route for the LAN, there's no default route with a gateway IP address. I put that in rc.inet1.conf in the eth[0] section but without effect. So, ... as a kludge at the end of rc.local I put 'route add default gw 192.168.55.4' and now eth0 works, too! Hoo-ha! This is a poor substitute for a real fix, but it lets me turn the laptop over to its intended user and quit futzing with it. Many thanks again to Wes, Mike, and everyone else offering expertise in networking and the reading of chicken entrails. I really appreciate all of you. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
