I got sick of waiting and just disabled DHCP on startup... I figured there was a timeout somewhere but never got the uber bit of curiosity to look.
It's a bit different on Gentoo, though, but it still makes sense. In /etc/conf.d/net, uncomment dhcpcd_etho="" and add the option "-t ##" (for timeout). Thanks for pointing me in the right direction! -Jeff On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 09:45 -0500, Jason Tower wrote: > a handy tip for those folks running linux on a laptop: > > if you set the network interface(s) to be dhcp clients (as most people do) > it can take a long time for the startup script to timeout when a dhcp > server is not available. this can be alleviated by adding the line > "DHCP_TIMEOUT=X" where X is the number of seconds before it times out to > /etc/sysconfig/network. worked like a charm on my mandrake 10.1 laptop. > > jason -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
