On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 03:07 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > The interface only comes up if the device is connected. That's oversimplifying. It'll try to bring eth0 up, but fail if the cable's not actually connected, and spend quite some time holding up the boot process waiting for a result. If you later, post boot, connect the cable, nothing happens unless you've got statically configured networking details. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.23.1-10.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.