On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 15:04 +0200, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > I'm trying it on a laptop that connects to various different networks > depending on the weather. I figured this would be a useful test as > it's a less common configuration. It connects mostly via different > docking stations. I use udev to rename ethernet devices according to > MAC address (the ethernet devices are in the docking stations). > Hotplug then runs the appropriately named network script via net.agent > to start the service. Critically, the various net.* scripts are > therefore -not- in any runlevel. > > This hotplugging of the network devices all kicks off early on - well > before the boot level has finished. The new /sbin/runscript.sh simply > drops the addition of the network device if the boot level hasn't > finished - leaving me with no network (or at least, a network that has > to be started manually). For now, I've commented out the check in > /sbin/runscript.sh, and it all works ok. I don't know what this will > break; obviously the check wasn't added just for laughs! >
emerge ifplugd and get that to monitor your interfaces. It will bring them up/down when a cable is inserted/removed. You'll probably have to tell it to not fail if the interfaces don't exist as you're using udev to rename them. A better solution would be to allow configuration via MAC address, which we may put into baselayout-1.12.0 > > On a somewhat related matter, I have bluetooth stuff installed, which > is also started by hotplug/pcmcia. In order to prevent it being > stopped by changing runlevels, I've made a softlink to net.bluetooth > and started that in my hotplug config instead of 'bluetooth'. Bit of > a hack, relying on the fact /sbin/rc does not automatically stop > anything that begins with "net.". Is there a tidier way to prevent > /sbin/rc from messing with services started & stopped via hotplug? > > > Try experimenting with the RC_STRICT_NET_CHECKING in /etc/conf.d/rc -- Roy Marples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Linux Developer
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