On Mon, 2005-21-03 at 17:04 -0400, Rolando Abarca wrote: > > it takes about 2 minutes, but my idea is that it should not try to > bring > up the interface at all if it doesn't have a cable pluged in... > I haven't 'noticed' other distros that don't do the same, although I could be wrong and been locked into using debian sarge and ubuntu for some time now.