On Sat, Jul 06, 2019 at 01:23:49PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > Hi! All, > > It has become necessary to move this box to a different room where a > wired ethernet connection is impractical. So, I'm going wireless with > it. USB. No problem with that, but . . . What's the easiest way to > prevent the wired ethernet (built-in on motherboard) from starting up? Just don't "auto eth0" in /etc/network/interfaces (e.g. comment out that line). Then eth0 will be only brought up manually, i.e. when you invoke "sudo ifup eth0". > I was thinking of just commenting its stanza out > of /etc/network/interfaces. Any other more practical (or proper) way > that's 100% easily reversable? Don't do that: Just getting rid of the auto part lets you still use eth0 on demand, when you need it. Cheers -- t
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