From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from proxy.dresearch.de ([87.193.137.100] helo=mail.dresearch.de) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Neq0q-000661-4O for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:20:23 +0100 Received: from exchange.intern.dresearch.de (unknown [192.168.32.16]) by mail.dresearch.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 672E849127F for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 14:17:48 +0100 (CET) Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([10.32.10.2]) by exchange.intern.dresearch.de with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Tue, 9 Feb 2010 14:18:43 +0100 Message-ID: <4B716090.2090104@dresearch.de> Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:18:08 +0100 From: Steffen Sledz User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: <4B7145A5.70808@dresearch.de> <1265716784.16488.1.camel@mattotaupa> In-Reply-To: <1265716784.16488.1.camel@mattotaupa> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Feb 2010 13:18:43.0694 (UTC) FILETIME=[6749A0E0:01CAA98A] X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 87.193.137.100 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: sledz@DResearch.DE X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on linuxtogo.org); Unknown failure Subject: Re: confused by netbase/udev X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:20:23 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Paul Menzel wrote: >> And here's what i like to see: >> * Connect an USB-NIC should result in an DHCP-configured interface. > > Do you have it configured somewhere (for example in [2])? If not you can > use a daemon like NetworkManager. > ... > [2] /etc/network/interfaces It's the Angstrom standard configuration containing e.g. # Wired or wireless interfaces auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp iface eth1 inet dhcp But i'm not sure what this part means (especially what means 'auto' here. Where can i found some documentation about the content of this config file. The busybox and ifup/ifdown manpages are not very helpful here. :( And another problem is the mentioned naming. If every connected USB-NIC gets a new name i cannot refer to it in this config file. > I hope that helps. Just a tiny bit. ;-) Steffen