Re: Preserving Hostname/DNS Name

[Steev Klimaszewski <steev gentoo org>]

Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote:
> I have network manager setup under Gentoo - it was pretty easy.
>
> rc-update del net.eth0
> rc-update del net.eth1
> then cleaned up the scripts themself (rm /etc/init.d/net.eth*)
>
> After that all is well, except two things.
>
>
> a. I use Gnome.  After connecting to a wireless network, my machine
> takes whatever hostname is given, thus borking my gnome session.  I
> have to logout then in, and everything works.

steev sigma ~ % cat /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf
send host-name "sigma";
supersede host-name "sigma";


> b. It doesn't (seem to) provide a faculty for retaining WEP keys.
>
> Sincerely,
>   Joshua
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Retaining keys does require gnome-keyring, it is a dep that should be 
added for the functionality.  I will get to it as soon as possible. 
Also, you can check the list archives, a few weeks ago someone asked 
about it starting instead of net.{w*,e*,a*} - there is a setting in the 
/etc/conf.d/rc file that you can set to have it ignore (good for those 
baselayout updates since INSTALL_MASK doesn't stop symlinks from being 
created.)