Net issue - can't start wireless w/o an AP [SOLVED]

abacker · n00b Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 74

I am having a problem that I think is related to the new baselayout, but not sure. I had to recompile tons of stuff because of the new xml parser. I now get some strange networking stuff going on, but I can make eveyrthing work manually if I try. Here is what is happening :

net.eth0 = wired (never used)
net.eth1 = wireless (used always, and in 'default' runlevel).
net.lo = well, of course. as 'boot' level.

I get "Device initiated servce : net.eth0" on boot. This brings up the interface, which is never actually connected to anything. No biggie, I hope, but I hate waiting for it to DHCP. Is there any way to figure out what is trying to start it? I don't have it loading at boot.

After that, the system tries to bring up net.eth1, which it should. However, it fails when there is no AP that it can get on, and so it says the interface can not start. Because of this, apache/netmount both can not start.

Is there any way to fix this? It doesn't matter if there is no wireless, but that shouldn't stop me from loading apache and using it locally, right? The interface should start, just not be on any particular AP. It works great at home, where It picks up my local net just fine, and everythign starts as it should.

Thanks,
Andrew
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jubajuba · Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 9:00 am Post subject:

I have the "same" problem. I've got two wired NICs, eth0 and eth1, I only use eth1 and accordingly I only start net.eth1 with rc. After a baselayout update (since after 1.12.4-r3 I think) both NICs start on boot and I have to stop net.eth0 after boot and restart/start the network services. Really annoying. Anyone know why and/or have a fix?

I'm using baselayout 1.12.4-r6 now.

jubajuba · Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 9:34 am Post subject:

Solved this one now, don't know if it's a good solution, but it should work for you too.

I edited /etc/conf.d/rc RC_PLUG_SERVICES and added !net.eth0 , this stops the loading of net.eth0 and works brilliantly here. See the file for more usage info.

UberLord

abacker · n00b Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 74

Thanks for your help, and I wish I had not bothered everyone again :oops:

I was playing with this last night after I posted, and I found something in another topic that made me look at the RC file again. Reading the comments it was obvious what I had to do! Here is what I did :

/etc/conf.d/rc
Edit this to make LO be counted as an UP interface, so nothing needs to be connected at boot. This makes netmount/apache/others start up even if there are networks other than local/127.0.0.8.

James Wells · n00b Joined: 10 Sep 2004 Posts: 57

Greetings,

abacker · n00b Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 74

Netplugd sounds like just what I need. For the moment I have just disabled anything from starting net.eth0 by