How I made Slako 6.3 connect To Internet at boot

[zandoval]

Slako 6.3 would not automatically connect to the Internet at boot with frugal install even though connections settings were saved for next session.

This connection is a simple Cat5 wired connection via eth0 Auto DHCP. I am not sure if this would work with other type connections.

After a few times of saving my settings via Puppy's Network Wizard and finding that there was no automatic connection I rebooted and typed dhcpcd into a terminal and bang... I was connected.

So I just droped the command into a script in the start menu.

File> Startup> Rc> New> Script> (make up a name)> Create

On the file Rc> Open As Text> under the line #!/bin/sh type in "dhcpcd"> Save

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#!/bin/sh
dhcpcd

Maybe someone can tell me why this works and if there are other configurations for other connections.

[Pete]

For lots of info on dhcpcd, see here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/dhcpcd

There is also ifplugd for laptops.
On Slacko (6.3) it's in /sbin/ifplugd

http://linux.die.net/man/8/ifplugd