Re: Getting boot not to hang if ethernet not plugged into modem
Cheryl Homiak wrote:
Is there something one can put in /etc/network/interfaces or somewhere
so that ethernet card coming up will be conditional. right now, if I
boot on either my laptop or desktop with "auto" set for eth0 and the
cable modem isn't connected to the ethernet card, the whole boot hangs
for quite a while. i noticed when experimenting with Fedora recently
that there was only a brief pause if the cable modem wasn't plugged
in, then the boot continued almost immediately. Not trying to compare
distros; it's just that having this happen with Fedora made me wonder
if it was possible to set something up in debian. I don't always know
when I am going to boot on a computer without the modem connected and
it seems anyway that there could be a better solution than changing
/etc/network/interfaces whenever i think I might be doing this.
Thanks.
Not really the best answer, but perhaps it might work in your case. You
should be able to hit Ctrl-C when it hangs, and that particular script
will abort, and the rest of the boot will then finish out.
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Kent
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