On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 14:37:51 -0500 (CDT) Don Dupy <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have my laptop set not to start eth0 at bootup. > The network stuff will hang for a long time if it isn't connected to a > network and cannot get DHCP. Once it is booted up, I open a terminal and > > type "ifup eth0" and that starts the ethernet card. > > If you have KDE or Gnome installed, go into the network configuration, > and you can change the boot up parameters there. If you use your laptop both on and off a network a lot (like I do), you might want to just assign a simple script that activates the network to a launcher in your KDE/Gnome/XFCE bar. Here's the script I use (requires that users be able to activate/deactivate eth0): http://home.mindspring.com/~charletiv/netswitch.html I have eth0 set to not start at bootup as well. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- * Charles Taylor <tomalek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> * Chemistry instructor / Mad scientist / Linux enthusiast! -------------------------------------------------------------------- * Web: http://home.mindspring.com/~charletiv/ --------------------------------------------------------------------
