I'm not an expert on the topic, but I have seen similar symptoms in another distribution, TinyCore. In that case, the cause was a "udevadm settle" in one of the init scripts that was blocking network bringup. If that is the problem, the solution depends on whatever is hanging up udev from emptying its queue.
HTH Robert Riches > From: Robert Fox <[email protected]> > To: Mageia-Dev <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:44:09 +0100 > > Since recently, I have noticed on that the eth0 network (setup with > static IP) start real late - like after login to desktop and almost > takes 3 minutes to initially start. What could be causing this? > > Thx, > R.Fox
