dhcpcd hangs on boot sometimes w/ forcedeth

GML3G0 · n00b Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Posts: 24

The wierd thing is, if I reboot into Windows, then reboot again into Linux, it works no problem. When it hangs, I just reset my modem a few times (since it doesn't work if i reset the modem just once), but this is time consuming and annoying. I get this problem on both my Gentoo and Debian systems.

_loki_ · l33t Joined: 18 Dec 2003 Posts: 680 Location: in the shell

have you tried to set a timeout in /etc/conf.d/net? Would be something like