Laptop without a network connection

[James Carroll]

I haven't extensively tested either of these, but what I'm trying on
my laptop is this:

in /etc/network/interfaces
look for auto eth0 and comment it out... that way you can do a ifup
eth0 when you do have a network cable installed, and it shouldn't come
up at boot time.

and in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf

uncomment the line that starts timeout 60;
and change it to timeout 5;  (20 is probably safer)

Your mileage may vary,
-Jim

On 6/14/05, paul marwick <paulm at waitrose.com> wrote:
> In article <matthew.1qmj2b at gs1.ubuntuforums.org>,
> matthew <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> 
> > When you get to that step press <control>+<c> and it should skip it.
> 
> That's not an ideal solution by any means. A number of things will not
> run if that is done while the network interface is being configured -
> Xine or any of its offshoots, for instance.
> 
> paul.
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