networking info

cblamer · 01-01-2004, 12:55 AM

i have a laptop with fedora on it, looking for some networking help.

more specifically, when i have the laptop out and about with no internet connection it takes forever to boot up. waiting on the eth0 connection. any way around this?

chris

pezplaya · 01-01-2004, 03:05 AM

You could disable your ethernet device at boot and start it up when your computer is running.

To disable at boot go to:

/etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/

find your ethernet device file, open it up and change on ONBOOT=yes to ONBOOT=no.

example:
mine is /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0

so i do:

Quote:

nano /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0

and change the onboot field.

There is probably another way around this... anyone else have any other ideas?