My desktop that has to authenticate via 801.X with wpa_supplicant before being allowed to communicate on the switchport. My girlfriend using an older version of baselayout (can't check which one, propably 1.?, hardware crash :() had it working correctly with the following in /etc/conf.d/eth0: config_eth0=( "dhcp" ) modules=( "wpa_supplicant" ) wpa_timeout_eth0=60 wpa_supplicant_eth0="-Dwired" I never got it working with my system, so I decided to upgrade to baselayout 2. But the baselayout network module /lib/rc/net/wpa_supplicant.sh contains a line checking for wireless proc entries (_is_wireless || return 0) - which of course fails, since I have only wired network cards. If I comment out that line, it correctly starts wpa_supplicant, but does not finish- it backgrounds the wpa_supplicant process, but never starts the dhcpcd. I tried to understand the script, and I think the timeout parameter is not evaluated at all. Manually performing these steps work fine, and the parameters used by the script (as shown with --debug) are correct. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. configure a wired interface in conf.d/net for wpa_supplicant use 2. restart networking on the interface Actual Results: # /etc/init.d/net.eth0 --verbose start * Bringing up interface eth0 * Loaded modules: apipa arping tuntap ccwgroup macchanger macnet wpa_supplicant ssidnet iproute2 pppd system dhcpcd ip6to4 * Configuring eth0 for MAC address 00:16:76:D8:67:8A ... [ ok ] * Starting wpa_supplicant on eth0 ... * Detaching to start `/usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant' ... [ ok ] * Starting wpa_cli on eth0 ... * Detaching to start `/usr/bin/wpa_cli' ... [ ok ] * Backgrounding ... ... * WARNING: net.eth0 has started, but is inactive Expected Results: After successfully authenticating, the interface module should try to get an dhcp lease. conf.d/net: modules="wpa_supplicant" wpa_supplicant_eth0="-Dwired" wpa_timeout_eth0=30 config_eth0="dhcp"
Please read the new /etc/conf.d/net.example for the new method of configuring your networking services.
If you're still running baselayout-2, you should look into OpenRC, Roy Marples (the baselayout-2 guy) recently left gentoo but took that project with him. http://roy.marples.name/openrc
Fixed in OpenRC.
