Laptop without a network connection

[Ed Fletcher]

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Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> On di, 2005-06-14 at 11:34 -0400, Mike Procario wrote:
> 
>>I sometimes run my laptop without a network connection. It takes
>>forever for the "* Configuring network interfaces" step of the boot up
>>to time out. Is there a way to either pass a boot parameter to skip
>>that step or shorten the timeout?
> 
> 
> Hit <ctrl> C when it reaches * Configuring....
> 

This certainly works but I'll add a caveat:  Sometimes this will kill
the lo (loopback).  I did this on a plane a few weeks ago and it took me
a while to figure out why the dvd playback was so choppy.  After I
entered 'sudo ifup lo' in a terminal, the dvd worked a lot better.

Ed
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