manual network setting

[David Coldrick]

Yes, of course you're right. Works like a charm now.

Many thanks,
David


On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 22:57:47 -0500, Noah Dain <noahdain at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:34:23 +1100, David Coldrick <coldrick at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > Well, it installs and seems to work, but I still have a *very* long
> > pause at network config time at bootup, so I dunno what it's doing,
> > really.
> >
> > Regards,
> > David
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:15:58 -0500, Noah Dain <noahdain at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 14:09:09 +0100, Loptr Chaote <loptr.chaote at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > 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
> > >
> > > try installing ifplugd.  hotplug can use it to start interfaces.  For
> > > example, with ifplugd installed, I can boot my laptop without a cable
> > > in the nic port and the system does not try to bring the interface up.
> > >  However, when I plug the cable in, it brings it up automagically.
> > > Same experience with pcmcia/cardbus wlan.  It's pretty sweer.
> > >
> > > you can tinker with it's behaviour in /etc/default/ifplugd
> > >
> > > -noah
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> >
> 
> your interface is probably still configured to come up automatically
> at startup.  You want to set it to manual startup as hotplug will be
> doing the "manual" managing of the interface for you.
> 
> clear the checkbox labeled "activate when computer starts" under
> computer>>system_configuration>>networking>>interface>>properties
> or
> take out the line that says "auto <interface>" in
> /etc/network/interfaces where <interface> is the appropriate network
> interface (eth0, eth1, wlan0, etc.)
> 
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> Noah Dain
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