Re: Disable Wired Ethernet at Boot

[Patrick Bartek <patrick.bartek@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 7 Jul 2019 09:30:22 +0200
<tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:

> 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.

Thanks for the info.

B