[TriLUG] dhcpcd'ing from onboard NIC on laptop

[Josh Vickery]

Prior to using network-manager I used a program called "ifplugd". I
think it has since been replaced by udev scripts and programs like
network-manager, but it worked very well when I last used it and was
very easy to configure.

Josh

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Alan Porter <porter at trilug.org> wrote:
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>> The on-board nic could sit there for a long time without an
>> ethernet cable being plugged in, but when I do plug in a
>> cable I'd like it to look for an IP. How do I arrange this?
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> I'm not sure what distro you're using (if I recall, yours
> is "home brewed").  On Ubuntu, it "just works".  I think
> the relevant pieces are udev, network-manager and
> nm-applet.
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