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vito_spatafore 07-24-2016 12:15 PM
eth0: waiting for carrier...
 
few seconds, booting stalled at eth0 : waiting for carrier, then

timed out,

dhcpcd exited,

my system >>> slackware32,kernel huge,with Xfce and new KDE ...

thanks

slacker1337 07-24-2016 12:17 PM
Are you attempting to connect via wireless or ethernet cable?

vito_spatafore 07-24-2016 12:27 PM
in fact WiFi (connectioneditor/networkmanager) is working flawless ...

but ...

I got that feel that I'm wasting seconds on that ...

drmozes 07-24-2016 12:27 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by vito_spatafore (Post 5580638)
few seconds, booting stalled at eth0 : waiting for carrier, then

timed out,

dhcpcd exited,

my system >>> slackware32,kernel huge,with Xfce and new KDE ...

thanks
Try upgrading to the new network-scripts from -current, or just edit your /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1
All that change does is add "-L" to the dhcpcd operators, which you can do like this:
Code:
sed -i 's?/sbin/dhcpcd -t ?/sbin/dhcpcd -Lt ?g' /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1
You also might want to increase the timeout. If the machine is hard wired to a network port, try setting the timeout to "0". this is what I do for my ARM machines. If you do this stuff manually, on my machines dhcpcd will pick up an IP immediately if I run dhcpcd again. I have no idea what is wrong with this, so I settled for this work around.

kingbeowulf 07-24-2016 12:33 PM
On one of the laptops here, during boot, it tries to connect to eth0 (wired) then times out. After which networkmanger finally loads and connects via wifi (wlan0). I think this happens since the system network scripts in /etc/rc.d are run first THEN rc.networkmanager gets run toward the end of the boot process. During installation I had a wired connection for PXE boot and NFS installation and I told the installer to set up the network.

When you installed Slackware, did you tell setup you run the network configuration script (netconfig)?

slacker1337 07-24-2016 12:48 PM
If you're using networkmanager to handle your wireless card, why not just turn off rc.inet1?

vito_spatafore 07-24-2016 12:58 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by slacker1337 (Post 5580649)
why not just turn off rc.inet1?
how pal , how ?

tia !

kingbeowulf 07-24-2016 01:01 PM
as root

chmod -x /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1

vito_spatafore 07-24-2016 01:03 PM
thx a lot folks ! we will see what happens or restart ...

STDOUBT 07-24-2016 01:09 PM
vito_spatafore,
The easy fix for this, and I believe, the proper fix is to change the settings for eth0 in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf as below

from:
Code:
# Config information for eth0:
IPADDR[0]=""
NETMASK[0]=""
USE_DHCP[0]="yes"
DHCP_HOSTNAME[0]=""
to:
Code:
# Config information for eth0:
IPADDR[0]=""
NETMASK[0]=""
USE_DHCP[0]=""
DHCP_HOSTNAME[0]=""
I believe this returns the conf file to it's state prior to running netconfig.

Alien Bob 07-24-2016 01:58 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by kingbeowulf (Post 5580656)
as root

chmod -x /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1
BAD idea.
Tat script does more than you think, it also sets up your loopback. You disable its interface configuration by editing rc.inet1.conf and removing any interface parameters in it, or replace the whole .conf file with the original.

vito_spatafore 07-24-2016 05:12 PM
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not at all !

Quote:
BAD idea
Momentarily turn off rc.inet1 did the trick !

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why do I have 3 rc.inet1 ?

thanks

Richard Cranium 07-24-2016 05:30 PM
Is that a trick question?

montagdude 07-24-2016 06:41 PM
If you don't have ethernet connected and you just want to decrease the timeout, you can change DHCP_TIMEOUT in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1. The default is 10 seconds.

Alien Bob 07-25-2016 06:15 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Richard Cranium (Post 5580756)
Is that a trick question?
Not worth answering I guess... not a trick question but a total lack of understanding.


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