manual network setting

[Noah Dain]

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:34:23 +1100, David Coldrick <coldrick at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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> 

your interface is probably still configured to come up automatically
at startup.  You want to set it to manual startup as hotplug will be
doing the "manual" managing of the interface for you.

clear the checkbox labeled "activate when computer starts" under
computer>>system_configuration>>networking>>interface>>properties
or
take out the line that says "auto <interface>" in
/etc/network/interfaces where <interface> is the appropriate network
interface (eth0, eth1, wlan0, etc.)

-- 
Noah Dain