laptop-net configuration

**bryansmith** · 10-31-2005

Hey everyone,

Well, I have just moved from Suse 10 to Debian Sid and I am really enjoying it. The one thing that I would really like to have configured is laptop-net. When I was using Ubuntu, I would install laptop-net through apt and it would tell me what to add to what file so I could have backgrounding of network detection during boot (thus speeding up the boot time). With Debian though, I was not informed of what to add to where to get backgrounding of network detection. Does anyone know what I need to add to what file to achieve this?

Thanks,
Bryan

**alain_** · 10-31-2005

I never worked with laptop-net, but the Debian manual says in chapter 10.6.4:

For more information consult the well written documentation in laptop-net-doc.

So open a browser and browse trough your doc's

file:///usr/share/doc/

**fyrephlie** · 10-31-2005

wish i could help you ... but i would love a to know how to speed up boot time on my machine in general... seems like if you could do it in ubuntu (which i though was debian based) you should be able to do it in debian sid (which sounds rather debian based to me...)

(you kept responding to my posts i thought i would respond to one of yours

)

**bryansmith** · 10-31-2005

Originally Posted by fyrephlie

(you kept responding to my posts i thought i would respond to one of yours

)

Thanks.

Okay, I don't seem to be having much luck here so I am going to ask a favour. I need someone with Ubuntu to get 'laptop-net' through apt and post the comments apt returns after installing laptop-net. I would really appreciate it.

Thanks,
Bryan

**fyrephlie** · 10-31-2005

i would love to help you out with that ... but my only laptop i have right now (i keep lending them to people.... ) is possessed by the evil spawn of satan ... and will not load anything .... halts frequently on installs ... i have gotten openSUSE to install... and kubuntu made it a little further than ubuntu (but since they are the same installer and same system just kde not gnome it doesnt make sense) i just got rid of ubuntu on this system ... but i am running simplyMEPIS which is debian (thus apt-get) based... running apt-get install laptop-net tells me that i need liblockfile1 libnet1 lockfile-progs it recommends laptop-net-docs and resolvconf as well ... tell me if there are other commands you want me to run or what exact information you are looking for and i will get it (also... can't i feasibly dl the packages only and host them on some web space for you to just get and rpm?)

**alain_** · 10-31-2005

I just installed laptop-net on my desktop box

It did asked me a couple of questions though,
did you tried dpkg-reconfigure laptop-net?

**bryansmith** · 11-01-2005

dpkg-reconfigure does not give me what I need. I remember when I was using Ubuntu, getting laptop-net through apt gave me some information at the end which told to you to add some lines to a file. That (I think) is the information I need.

Bryan

**antidrugue** · 11-01-2005

Have you try mail?

Most of the time when there is "something more" apt-get sends a message to the post-master... which should be you, so try:

Code:

mail

I guess you will have receive some kind of notice with the extra configuration to whichever file.

It helped me for quite a few issues in the past. Hope this help...

**alain_** · 11-01-2005

ok, in that case i can't help you.
debian was'nt so friendly to tell me what to do

**bryansmith** · 11-01-2005

Originally Posted by antidrugue

Have you try mail?

Most of the time when there is "something more" apt-get sends a message to the post-master... which should be you, so try:

Code:

mail

I guess you will have receive some kind of notice with the extra configuration to whichever file.

It helped me for quite a few issues in the past. Hope this help...

Not there but thanks for the idea.

alain_ - yeah, I wish it had told me too.

Bryan

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