Slackware 12.2 disable eth0 on startup

Seekret · 05-11-2009, 06:58 AM

I'm trying to disable my Ethernet device on startup in Slackware 12.2. I've tried putting 'ifconfig eth0 down' in the /etc/rc.d/inet1.conf file at the beginning but that didn't work. I also tried adding 'ifconfig eth0 down' to the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file but that didn't work either. I'm on a laptop and don't usually have an Ethernet cable plugged in so the laptop has to wait for the DHCP process to timeout before continuing.

Thanks in advance for any help.

brianL · 05-11-2009, 07:09 AM

This might be the answer, although there isn't a package for 12.2:
http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/ifplugd/

Seekret · 05-11-2009, 07:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brianL

This might be the answer, although there isn't a package for 12.2:
http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/ifplugd/

Thanks for the link, however I ran into a problem installing the ifplugd daemon. When I run 'make' it fails giving out a few errors saying it has conflicting types for various entries. I included the output below.

Code:

bash-3.1$ make
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/frank/builds/ifplugd-0.28'
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/frank/builds/ifplugd-0.28/src'
if test -d "../.svn" ; then \
                if REV=`svn info ".." | grep ^Revision | cut -f2 -d" "` 2> /dev/null ; then \
                        echo -e "#ifndef foosvnrevisionhfoo\n#define foosvnrevisionhfoo\n#define SVN_REVISION \"$REV\"\n#endif" > svn-revision.h ; \
            fi \
        fi
make  all-am
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/frank/builds/ifplugd-0.28/src'
if test -d "../.svn" ; then \
                if REV=`svn info ".." | grep ^Revision | cut -f2 -d" "` 2> /dev/null ; then \
                        echo -e "#ifndef foosvnrevisionhfoo\n#define foosvnrevisionhfoo\n#define SVN_REVISION \"$REV\"\n#endif" > svn-revision.h ; \
            fi \
        fi
if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I..    -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/local/include   -DSYSCONFDIR="\"/usr/local/etc\"" -D_GNU_SOURCE -g -O2 -pipe -W -Wall -Wno-unused-parameter -MT interface.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/interface.Tpo" -c -o interface.o interface.c; \
        then mv -f ".deps/interface.Tpo" ".deps/interface.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/interface.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
In file included from interface.c:27:
/usr/include/sys/types.h:62: error: conflicting types for 'dev_t'
/usr/include/linux/types.h:13: error: previous declaration of 'dev_t' was here
/usr/include/sys/types.h:67: error: conflicting types for 'gid_t'
/usr/include/linux/types.h:27: error: previous declaration of 'gid_t' was here
/usr/include/sys/types.h:72: error: conflicting types for 'mode_t'
/usr/include/linux/types.h:15: error: previous declaration of 'mode_t' was here
/usr/include/sys/types.h:77: error: conflicting types for 'nlink_t'
/usr/include/linux/types.h:16: error: previous declaration of 'nlink_t' was here
/usr/include/sys/types.h:82: error: conflicting types for 'uid_t'
/usr/include/linux/types.h:26: error: previous declaration of 'uid_t' was here
In file included from /usr/include/sys/types.h:133,
                 from interface.c:27:
/usr/include/time.h:105: error: conflicting types for 'timer_t'
/usr/include/linux/types.h:22: error: previous declaration of 'timer_t' was here
In file included from /usr/include/sys/types.h:220,
                 from interface.c:27:
/usr/include/sys/select.h:78: error: conflicting types for 'fd_set'
/usr/include/linux/types.h:12: error: previous declaration of 'fd_set' was here
In file included from interface.c:27:
/usr/include/sys/types.h:235: error: conflicting types for 'blkcnt_t'
/usr/include/linux/types.h:124: error: previous declaration of 'blkcnt_t' was here
interface.c: In function 'interface_detect_beat_mii':
interface.c:106: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
interface.c:115: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
interface.c: In function 'interface_detect_beat_priv':
interface.c:134: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
interface.c:143: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
make[3]: *** [interface.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/frank/builds/ifplugd-0.28/src'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/frank/builds/ifplugd-0.28/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/frank/builds/ifplugd-0.28'
make: *** [all] Error 2
bash-3.1$

brianL · 05-11-2009, 08:53 AM

Have you tried installing the package? Download it and run, as root:

Code:

installpkg ifplugd-0.28-i486-3alien.tgz

or create directories for ifplugd and libdaemon, get all the relevant files for each, then run the SlackBuild scripts?

Seekret · 05-11-2009, 09:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brianL

Have you tried installing the package? Download it and run, as root:

Code:

installpkg ifplugd-0.28-i486-3alien.tgz

or create directories for ifplugd and libdaemon, get all the relevant files for each, then run the SlackBuild scripts?

I did not try that, but I was looking through the scripts in the /etc/rc.d folder to see which ones were running network services at start up and was able to solve the problem by changing the rc.inet1 shell script to have 'ath' as the variable for 'IFNAME' instead of 'eth'. I will still try to install 'ifplugd' with 'installpkg' since I imagine it isn't a bad thing to have. Thanks for the help.

forum1793 · 05-11-2009, 10:54 PM

Can't you just alter /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf?

Remove or comment out the eth ones and start with the wireless part.

Or, alter rc.inet1 so that it is not executable. Then you can start the wireless separately, with your own script, wpa-supplicant, or wicd.

Seekret · 05-12-2009, 12:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by forum1793

Can't you just alter /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf?

Remove or comment out the eth ones and start with the wireless part.

Or, alter rc.inet1 so that it is not executable. Then you can start the wireless separately, with your own script, wpa-supplicant, or wicd.

Originally I had tried commenting out the eth devices in rc.inet1.conf but that did not work. Altering the rc.inet1 script to use ath instead of eth has worked out perfectly for me so I'm going to keep that solution. Thanks for the help though.