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OK so I'm a happy camper sorta.
Got netcfg2 working for the most part, here's my question:
It doesn't start at boot, but I think I know why, I have it set correctly and runs from the command prompt, I also have it in my networks in rc.conf, do I need to have it in the interfaces? And can I have eth0="dhcp" removed but still have it function if I really need to plug mt laptop into a wired network, and is that timing out causin netcfg to not load at boot?
I know it works because I'm typing this from the laptop and the wire is not connected, so it's just some tweaking I need to do
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what you need is net-profiles to be added into daemons section in rc.conf.
also put ! infront of network - no need to load them both.
for a wired neetwork just copy the /etc/network.d/examples/ethernet.example to the /etc/network.d/ethernet and add ethernet to the NETWORKS list. works well for me.
networks line should looks something like this: NETWORKS=("auto-wireless wlan0" ethernet)
ensure if you have auto wireless in networks list, add SCAN=yes to network profiles.
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For netcfg to start you need the following two items:
NETWORKS=( your-configuration-to-start )
DAEMONS=(... net-profiles ...)
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what you need is net-profiles to be added into daemons section in rc.conf.
also put ! infront of network - no need to load them both.for a wired neetwork just copy the /etc/network.d/examples/ethernet.example to the /etc/network.d/ethernet and add ethernet to the NETWORKS list. works well for me.
networks line should looks something like this: NETWORKS=("auto-wireless wlan0" ethernet)ensure if you have auto wireless in networks list, add SCAN=yes to network profiles.
According to the wiki for detection on boot, you may set SCAN="yes" in each profile, and add them to NETWORKS=() in /etc/rc.conf. So if you use NETWORKS=("auto-wireless <interface>"...) then you don't need to set SCAN=yes in the network profiles.
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but that doesn't do any harm either, if you have scan=yes in profiles. (:
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A tip if you dont mind a few clicks to connect is to use Archassistant. Its a very nice GUI for handling netcfg profiles and to connect. Im using it cause im to lazy to write in console and i switch between atleas 3 different wireless networks. So having my wireless autoconnect at boot aint a practical soulotion for me.
Archassistant is created for the KDE desktop but i run in XFCE whitout any issues.
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Gluffs,
Are you referring to wlassistant? I use that on my laptop; since it works directly with the network daemon rather than its own, it works like a charm Wifi-radar, networkmanager, and wicd didn't work that well with my laptop.
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Netcfg2 is able to manage both ethernet and wireless.
So eth0="dhcp" can be removed if you have an ethernet profile with this option. i.e : On my desktop computer I have a "home" profile with a static ip, and a "dhcp" profile with... hum... I let you guess the answer for this one.
On my laptop netcfg is used to handle wireless network, and ifplugd for the wired one.
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