Thanks you all for the replies.  After looking at each I decided to
use quickswitch.  It works well except for one thing.  I have two home
configurations: hardwired & wireless.  If I boot up using my wireless
card and later decide to switch to my hardwired connection,
quickswitch does not take down the wireless connection.  So, both are
active at the same time.  How can I disable the old connection using
quickswitch?

Thanks again

On 5/18/05, scwang@... <scwang@...> wrote:
> I recommend you to use quickswitch.
> Using this software, you can switch between different net
> configuration conveniently.
> 
> 
> 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.  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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> > P4 3.4GFHz w/HT
> > 2 GB RAM
> > Nvidia Geforce FX Go5700 video
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