Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi, > I've been using wicd for quite awhile on my laptop and it works fine >with both wired and wireless interfaces. However I'm using it more >lately where I have to boot the machine from scratch. In this case I >face a rather long delay once or possibly twice during boot. >Basically, the boot scripts say the networking interfaces aren't >turned on so it attempts to run dhcpd. I do not enable nor have I even >added net.eth0 or net.wlan0 in rc-update. (I think that's correct, and >it does work.) > > Anyway, I'm wondering if this delay is normal behavior for wicd? >Everything works fine but I have to wait 30-60 second, once or twice, >for dhcpd while booting. I suspect that's not necessary. > > Getting on the network once I'm up is reasonably fast. The only >thing I found Googling delay & wicd was people waiting 3 minutes to >find wireless networks. I don't have that problem. > > Not sure what data to provide other than the files below. > >Cheers, >Mark > > >slinky ~ # ls -al /etc/init.d/* | grep net >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Mar 19 2011 /etc/init.d/net.eth0 -> >net.lo >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 16741 Feb 23 2012 /etc/init.d/net.lo >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Sep 11 2011 /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 -> >net.lo >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2219 Feb 23 2012 /etc/init.d/netmount >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6962 Feb 23 2012 /etc/init.d/network >slinky ~ # > > > >slinky ~ # cat /etc/conf.d/net >#config_eth0="192.168.1.55 netmask 255.255.255.0" >#routes_eth0="default via 192.168.1.1" > >#modules="wpa_supplicant" > >#config_wlan0="192.168.1.100 netmask 255.255.255.0" >#routes_wlan0="default via 192.168.1.1" > >slinky ~ # > > >slinky ~ # cat /etc/wicd/manager-settings.conf >[Settings] >backend = external >wireless_interface = wlan0 >wired_interface = eth0 >wpa_driver = wext >always_show_wired_interface = True >use_global_dns = False >global_dns_1 = None >global_dns_2 = None >global_dns_3 = None >global_dns_dom = None >global_search_dom = None >auto_reconnect = True >debug_mode = 0 >wired_connect_mode = 1 >signal_display_type = 0 >should_verify_ap = 1 >dhcp_client = 0 >link_detect_tool = 0 >flush_tool = 0 >sudo_app = 0 >prefer_wired = False >main_width = 739 >main_height = 755 >netprop_width = 484 >netprop_height = 600 >pref_width = 561 >pref_height = 540 >show_never_connect = True > >slinky ~ #
Mark. There is a setting with example on how to disable auto-start of the network services in /etc/rc.conf . I can't check for the actual syntax, but I think this is what you are looking for. -- Joost -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
