On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 10:42 +1000, Richard Watson wrote: > Hi, I recently upgraded my system with emerge -uDN world. Afterwards I > found that net.eth0 was grabbing my firewire port (ieee1394) and I > needed to create net.eth2 for my NIC as net.eth1 was being assigned to > my wireless. My problem is that although "rc-update show" indicates > all my interfaces are NOT being loaded other than net.lo at boot > (which is what I want) my system keeps trying to start net.eth0 > net.eth1 net.eth2 in the " default" run level. Can anybody help? It's > very frustrating waiting for these interfaces to try and connect > before timing out.
device initiated services! the topic came up recently. I hated it for a while because it was starting bluetooth for me automatically! there are a couple of things to tweak in /etc/conf.d/rc. Set RC_PLUG_SERVICES="!net.*" and set RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING="lo" read the comments for more info! HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. -- Aesop -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list