I simply put a small timeout into dhcp - 3 seconds or so - and then if eth0 is not connected it doesn't get an ip address and is never brought up.
similarly if there is no access point, or no wireless dhcp server on that access point, eth1, the wireless one never gets brought up. On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 22:27:02 +0100 Mats Lidell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > What is the right way to make the boot go fast when a laptop isn't > connected to eth0? > > I sometimes connect wireless and sometimes I use a cable. With my > current setup it always tries to bring up eth0 during the boot. This > is no good when there is no cable connected. > > Is there some convenient way to resolve this so that when there is no > cable but a wireless net it is used instead directly. Or can I use > some boot parameter to guide the boot process to ignore eth0 when I > intend to use wireless? > > Yours > -- > %% Mats > > > -- > [email protected] mailing list -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [email protected] mailing list
