Re: DHCP timeout is too short for this college network

[John Mahoney <jmahoney waav com>]

Yeah too good to be true.  I see two ways to change the timeout.

1.Change this - /NetworkManager/src/dhcp-manager/nm-dhcp-manager.c:#define NM_DHCP_TIMEOUT   45 /* DHCP timeout, in seconds */

OR

2. call this function somehere? /NetworkManager/src/nm-device-olpc-mesh.c: nm_device_set_dhcp_timeout (NM_DEVICE (self), 20);

To compile follow:

git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.git
cd NetworkManager
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
make
sudo make install

There are alteast 10 dev packages you will have to install, but keep running

autogen.sh and when it fails go hunt down the dev package.  Note some are not obvious by the name.