Calling IN_HOTPLUG=1 /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 does lead to strange messages about inactive service and thus services depending on net cannot be started at boot.
Calling the init-script like this from udev makes net.wlan0 started fine at boot. # IN_BACKGROUND=1 IN_HOTPLUG=1 /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start Should the additional IN_BACKGROUND=1 make a difference for openrc? From looking at openrc source code I thought IN_HOTPLUG=1 should be enough. # emerge --info Portage 2.1.9.40 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/developer, gcc-4.4.5, glibc-2.13-r1, 2.6.37-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.37-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_II_X2_250_Processor-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:15:01 +0000 ccache version 3.1.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.6.6-r1, 3.1.3 dev-util/ccache: 3.1.4 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.3-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1-r1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.7.0 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r4, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.21 sys-devel/gcc: 4.3.5, 4.4.5, 4.5.2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.36.1 (sys-kernel/linux-headers) ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA PUEL dlj-1.1 sun-bcla-java-vm AdobeFlash-10.1 skype-eula" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /lib64/udev/rules.d /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/openvpn/easy-rsa" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/my-distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs ccache collision-protect distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages multilib-strict news parallel-fetch protect-owned sfperms sign splitdebug strict test-fail-continue unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="rsync://mirror.neolabs.kz/gentoo http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/gentoo/" LANG="de_DE.utf8" LC_ALL="C" LDFLAGS="-Wl,--hash-style=gnu -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="de en en_GB" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/my-packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/zzam /usr/local/overlays/vdr/vdr-xine-overlay /usr/local/overlays/vdr/vdr-devel /usr/local/overlays/vdr/testing /usr/local/overlays/layman/sunrise /usr/local/overlays/layman/mozilla /usr/local/overlays/dev-overlay" SYNC="cvs://zzam@cvs.gentoo.org:/var/cvsroot" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 bash-completion berkdb bluetooth bzip2 cairo cdr chm cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus djvu dri dts dvb dvd dvdr ebook emboss encode exif fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gdu gif gphoto2 gpm gtk iconv id3tag ipv6 jpeg kde lcms ldap libnotify lzma lzo mad mikmod mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf png policykit ppds pppd qt3support qt4 readline samba sdl semantic-desktop session slp smp snmp spell sse sse2 ssl startup-notification subversion svg sysfs tcpd tiff truetype udev unicode usb v4l v4l2 vorbis wifi x264 xcb xml xmp xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1 intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" DVB_CARDS="ttpci usb-wt220u dibusb-usb2 usb-dib0700" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="mouse keyboard evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text xosd" LINGUAS="de en en_GB" LIRC_DEVICES="serial" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia v4l vesa vbdev nv nouveau" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
reassining to correct maintainers: $ qfile -b -v net.lo net-misc/netifrc-0.2.3 (/etc/init.d/net.lo) $ qfile -b -v net.sh net-misc/netifrc-0.2.3 (/lib/udev/net.sh) $ qfile -b -v 90-network.rules net-misc/netifrc-0.2.3 (/lib/udev/rules.d/90-network.rules)
please retest on netifrc-9999 and latest udev/openrc.
