santner Posted June 15, 2004 Report Share Posted June 15, 2004 How can I disable the initialization of eht0 when booting. I don't have a broadband connection so it will always fail anyway, and since I have compiled the 2.6.6 kernel this is the only annoyance, it will stall for almost an entire minute before it fails to initialize. Does anyone know where the code is at to comment this initialization out? :P :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted June 15, 2004 Report Share Posted June 15, 2004 Mandrake Control Center -> System -> Services find Network, click the button beside "On Boot" so that it's deselected. You should be good to go. (I suggest this over editing config files manually simply because sometimes Mandrake will reset files to what -it- thinks they should be - which is part of some of it's security features - to keep files from being changed when they shouldn't be.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
santner Posted June 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2004 Again tyme, you have answered my question. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roland Posted June 15, 2004 Report Share Posted June 15, 2004 an other way is to go on MCC Network config and check the "hotplug" option somewhere (I'm not on Linux currently and the problem is solved anyway :P ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted June 15, 2004 Report Share Posted June 15, 2004 eeehh....hotplug is iffy, i really suggest against using it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roland Posted June 15, 2004 Report Share Posted June 15, 2004 eeehh....hotplug is iffy, i really suggest against using it. iffy ? not on the dictionary :( I guess that means bad or something like that ? well worked for me so that must be good :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted June 15, 2004 Report Share Posted June 15, 2004 iffy ? not on the dictionary :( I guess that means bad or something like that ? well worked for me so that must be good :P iffy = sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted June 15, 2004 Report Share Posted June 15, 2004 if you want a word for iffy, "inconsistent" would be the closest word in english. sorry, i really need to get out of the habit of using slang on the board :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roland Posted June 16, 2004 Report Share Posted June 16, 2004 if you want a word for iffy, "inconsistent" would be the closest word in english. sorry, i really need to get out of the habit of using slang on the board :lol: No, please don't change anything: that's the way I like it iffy = sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Thanks :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
santner Posted June 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2004 Well it works like a charm, but I found a problem in doing so. KMAIL(bundled inside of kontact) locks up completely when trying to send an email. Very strange problem. If I started to type an email address in the 'TO' field, it would lock completely and I would have to kill the process. Puzzled me for a while, then I changed the option back to 'on boot' for network, rebooted and the problem went away. It seems like there is some sort of time-out mechanism. Like I said earlier, it stalls for about one minute before it fails. Is there some kind of code that I could modify to change this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted June 17, 2004 Report Share Posted June 17, 2004 not starting networking is iffy..... the problem is as a minimumk you need loopback and other services are dependant upon this..... gnome and kde desktops also need networking or they will stall all the time. as tyme says the annoying security crap puts these back if you edit them the wrong way... and hotplug can be iffy(iffy-a=ale'atoire b=louche :D) the best way is probably to just to disable eth0 .but activate it by a script .. which is basically ifconfig eth0 dhcp (I need to check the syntax) make sure you have a hostname on boot, as well otherwise things will be unpredictable .... alternatively try ifup lo0 just to bring back loopback test you have a hostname (by typing hostname) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
santner Posted June 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2004 So from your response, I got this: #!/bin/bash ifconfig eth0 dhcp put this in ~.kde/Autostart/ and also type hostname in the cli to make sure that I have a hostname assigned. What I didn't get was how to disable eth0 on bootup. Could you be more specific Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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