On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 12:12 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > 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. > > where is the time out specified? i would love to do that with my laptop, would be easier than managing 4 separate run levels.
> 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
