On 08:47 Thu 02 Aug , Dan Cowsill wrote: > I've got wifi configured with madwifi and use my wifi interface a lot > more than the ethernet I had thought that removing net.eth0 from > rc-update, but that didn't seem to work. Every time I booted, the > interface tried to go up and get dhcp information. I then read about > and used a preup function to check that interfaces are actually > connected before they are brought up, and this essentially solves the > problem. It occurs to me that it would just be a whole lot easier and > cleaner if net.eth0 just didn't try to start at all, but I haven't > found any way to do this short of removing the init.d script from > rc-update. > > My question is, is there any way to stop net.eth0 from starting > besides ethtool's preup function?
There's yet another solution to this problem:
$ cat net
config_eth0=( null )
So just set the configuration for the interface to `null' so it doesn't
do atything when brought up at boot time.
Regards,
Aleks
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