eth0 taking too long at boot

[JoeyJoeJo]

I have a new install of gentoo on my laptop. If I boot up w/o ethernet, it takes really long until it fails. How do I go about backgrounding the DHCP broadcast like in knoppix?

[thaddaeus]

stop start up of network devices and manually set it up, or have two boot images, one with network one without, i can't help with the actual way todo this, but just an idea

[X_console]

Find out which script starts dhcpcd during bootup. There's an option that it can take which tells it how long to wait before it times out. Probably -t. I'm not on my Linux box right now so I can't tell. man dhcpcd for more details. Set it to 5 seconds or something.

[xinsi]

you can use a static IP attress.