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On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 06:12:09PM -0400, Zander Z365 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is probably an easy one.
> My laptop has two network connections: hardwired (default) and
> wireless(starts manually). Both are working fine. However, when I
> boot up my laptop without the NIC cable connected it takes a very long
> time to boot. This is because the net.eth0 script keeps trying to
> start networking.
You can change the default timeout for DHCP:
/etc/conf.d/net:
dhcpcd_eth0="-t 3"
for example
> I have an older laptop with SuSe 9.2 and it does
> not have this problem.
>
> How can I configure the startup script so that networking will not be
> started if the cable is not connected?
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