howto disable eth0 at boot time

rydogg · 06-15-2003, 02:30 PM

Hi,
I have a 10/100 broadcom chip on my motherboard, that i can't disable in bios or onboard with jumper. Linux picked it up during install and now during boot it takes a very long time to initialize it cuz i dont have it plugged into anything. I use my wireless card for networking, btw it works great and i am happy with it.

How do i tell linux to not start eth0 at boot time?
thanks
Mandrake 9.1
-Ry

david_ross · 06-15-2003, 02:39 PM

Edit:
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
and change
ONBOOT=yes
to
ONBOOT=no

(or add it if it doesn't exist)

rydogg · 06-16-2003, 09:33 AM

Thanks david_ross, i appreciate your help.

-ry