On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:56:55 -0700 Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Alan, > OK, so wicd really does seem to do the job. It was only about 10 > minutes to get it working. Thanks to you and others for suggesting I > look at it. > > Basically, I've removed net.eth0 and net.wlan0 from rc-update and > added them with '!' to hotplug in rc.conf. Additionally I commented > out everything in /etc/conf.d/net just to ensure no one is using it. I > configured the settings for both networks in wicd to different ip > addresses and they seem to be what the machine is using. Switching > between the two networks is completely painless. All good so far. > > The only thing I've noticed is that ntp-client doesn't run when > booting. ntpd does run immediately after ntp-client fails. I'm not > sure if that's caused by some delay in the wired network coming up > using wicd or something else but it was working in my previous setup. > Any ideas about that one? Yes, I had that too. IIRC the fix is to tweak the ntp init scripts to only run after the wicd daemon is running. The init script for ntp assumes you'll be using the net.* stuff. This might warrant a properly bug report actually. > Anyway, I suspect I could drop in at the library and get it to > connect there. I'll give that a try later this week. -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
