manual network setting

[Loptr Chaote]

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