Breezy boot up and network interfaces

[Derek Broughton]

matt nicholson wrote:

> personally, i just go into /etc/networking/interfaces and reomve the
> "auto" lines from my eth0 (which is never plugged in) and wlan0 (which
> is never assosiated with the AP at that point). 

Me too (except it's eth0 and eth1 on my Inspiron 6000).

> if you goign to do this, disable the NTP sync at boot too, cause that
> will just sit there/die at every boot.

Maybe I changed the timeout - it _does_ die on mine, but pretty quickly.
 
> Lee McLain wrote:
> 
>> Hi everyone,
>>     I have just finished installing Breezy on my Inspiron 6000 laptop

I have the same system.

>>    Is there a way to either shut off the interface complete until I am
>> logged in or, a better idea, to have the system try to get the network
>> information  in the background and continue booting?  I believe Fedora
>> Core does it like this, but I am not certain.  The long boot times
>> that result are really quite annoying.

I run ifplugd; /etc/network/interfaces just has:

        auto lo
        iface lo inet loopback
        # The primary network interface
        iface eth0 inet dhcp
        # The wireless interface
        iface eth1 inet dhcp

and whereami gets invoked by dhclient to do any other setup.  I'm still
tweaking whereami a bit for handling hibernate/resume, but it works
perfectly at boot time.
-- 
derek