manual network setting

[David Coldrick]

Well, it installs and seems to work, but I still have a *very* long
pause at network config time at bootup, so I dunno what it's doing,
really.

Regards,
David


On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:15:58 -0500, Noah Dain <noahdain at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 14:09:09 +0100, Loptr Chaote <loptr.chaote at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:00:54 +1100, David Coldrick <coldrick at gmail.com > wrote:
> > > Ubuntu (Hoary) is working well for me. On startup, however, the
> > > networking config takes a looonnnngg time: I assume it's trying both
> > > the wire and the wireless. Is there some way I can set it up so that
> > > *I* set which of the two to try after boot? The /etc/init.d/networking
> > > script is presumably the one that does this: how do I prevent it being
> > > run during boot?
> >
> > I believe you want to look in /etc/networking/, especially the file
> > interfaces. (Also do 'man interfaces' to read about it).
> >
> > Disabling DHCP should remove the long delay you describe, since it's
> > most likely due to the interface waiting for a DHCP response before
> > proceeding.
> >
> > -L.C
> 
> try installing ifplugd.  hotplug can use it to start interfaces.  For
> example, with ifplugd installed, I can boot my laptop without a cable
> in the nic port and the system does not try to bring the interface up.
>  However, when I plug the cable in, it brings it up automagically.
> Same experience with pcmcia/cardbus wlan.  It's pretty sweer.
> 
> you can tinker with it's behaviour in /etc/default/ifplugd
> 
> -noah
> 
> 
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