Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Ralph Alvy wrote: >> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> >>> Ralph Alvy wrote: >>>> I notice that FC7 is hanging on boot when it attempts to configure wlan >>>> interface. I don't have wireless internet here. >>>> >>> One way to avoid this is to set "ONBOOT=no" in the configuration for >>> your wireless interface. There is a checkbox to control this in the >>> network configuration GUI. You can also set "USERCTL=yes" to let a >>> normal user bring up the interface. >>> >>> Mikkel >> >> Since I can no longer boot Fedora, I need to do this change withot Fedora >> running. I can boot a different Linux with no problem. What config file >> would I edit for this? >> > I see from another message that you found the file. For more > information on the files and their contents, you may want to read: > > /usr/share/doc/initscripts-<version>/sysconfig.txt > > I had not realized that you could not boot at all. I thought you > were experiencing the timeout delay while it tries to configure the > interface. When I have experienced this in the past, the machine > would continue to boot after a delay of up to 2 minutes... > > Mikkel Ah. I didn't wait an entire 2 minutes. I probably would have booted.
