On 12/15/05, Matthew Jarvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ubuntu still takes a ghastly long time to log in and present the GUI. On
> the other hand, once I'm in I can go to System/Admin/Networking and play
> with the config for the card.

Ubuntu's Default boot sequence seems to have been built on
the assumption that it would be running on a networked PC
so it will wait for dhcp to time out on any ethernet interfaces
(even if the ethernet interface is not active)

you can disable dhcp probing by changing the configuration in
/etc/network/interfaces



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