Re: [ALUG] Just installed Debian

Richard Lewis wrote:

Dear ALUG,

I've recently installed Debian "testing" on my laptop over the Internet.

Its all very shinny and nice (with kernel 2.6, KDE 3.1.5 etc.) and I've almost got everything I want working.

There are one or two things that I hope someone might be able to help with though:

1. When the system boots it attempts to connect to the network through eth0.

This is fine when I'm on campus and plugged into the network, but when I'm at home it adds about a minute onto the bootup time and achieves nothing (I've not network at home). Is there a way of making this optional at bootup?

have a look at /etc/network/interfaces

There might be a line that says something like 'auto lo eth0' If so, remove eth0 from it. If that line doesn't exist, then...erm...

/me wanders off, whistling

BenE