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On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 06:12:09PM -0400, Zander Z365 wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> This is probably an easy one. |
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> My laptop has two network connections: hardwired (default) and |
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> wireless(starts manually). Both are working fine. However, when I |
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> boot up my laptop without the NIC cable connected it takes a very long |
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> time to boot. This is because the net.eth0 script keeps trying to |
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> start networking. I have an older laptop with SuSe 9.2 and it does |
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> not have this problem. |
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> |
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> How can I configure the startup script so that networking will not be |
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> started if the cable is not connected? |
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I'd suggest you look into using ifplugd to handle starting and stopping |
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your network scripts. Basically, you add ifplugd to the run level, and |
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not any of the network scripts. Then, ifplugd will start the net.ethX |
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script when it detects a Layer 1 link existing. It's not perfect, but it |
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works (most of the time). |
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Other alternatives are trying to get NetworkManager working (requires |
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the new "Gentopia" overlay as discussed on the -dev list). I've not |
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personally tried this though. |
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-pete |
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Peter Johanson |
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