John,

   There may be other ways to do this but I'd go into
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and set ifcfg-eth1 where it says ONBOOT
to no and then when I do need it just do ifup eth1 and bring it up
manually.  

James


On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 20:45, John O'Shaughnessy wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I've got a Dell Latitude C400 with mandrake 9.0.
> 
> There is:
> 1. Inboard Ethernet (always present)
> 2. Dock Ethernet (present only when docked)
> 3. Wireless Ethernet PC Card (present only when inserted -- could be either
> docked or undocked.
> 
> When I installed the system, eth0 was the internal interface, eth1 was the
> dock, and wireless was added later, showing up as eth2.
> 
> Now, when I try to book undocked, the system freezes trying to bring up
> eth1, which, I'm assuming, means it is looking for the Dock Ethernet, which
> isn't there.  I need to power down, or CTRL-ALT-DEL to get out of the
> situation.
> 
> Is there a way to make the system understand that the interfaces may or may
> not be present, or at the very least, not to hang when not docked?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John
> 
> 
> -- 
> John O'Shaughnessy                                            
> 
> 
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