Hoary on IBM X40 Network configuration

Erik Bågfors zindar at gmail.com
Fri May 27 08:29:15 UTC 2005


Don't know how to do it the GUI way, but....

If you go to /etc/network/interfaces. You should see two lines saying
"auto eth0" and "auth eth1". If you remove them (or better yes, put #
infront of them), it will not autostart the interface.

/Erik

On 5/27/05, Tony <tony.kruse at gmail.com> wrote:
> I use my X40 laptop at several locations, some wireless, some Ethernet
> and various configurations.
> 
> When I boot the laptop it must always go through and attempt to find a
> network or time out.  I would like to leave the various configurations
> in place, however not to auto-activate on boot.  I don't see how to do
> this with the Network Settings GUI that comes on Hoary.
> 
> If I uncheck "This device is configured" under Properties, will this
> delete the configuration or just deactivate it?
> 
> I don't want to delete any configurations, only set them not to
> auto-activate on boot.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tony
> 
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