[lug] minor boot message question

[Elyse Grasso]

On Friday 25 April 2003 11:28 am, George Sexton wrote:
> Don't mark the interfaces as activate on boot.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us 
[mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]On
> Behalf Of Elyse Grasso
> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 10:14 AM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: [lug] minor boot message question
> 
> 
> When the ethernet card is installed in my laptop's pccard slot, it is 
> seen as eth0. 
> When the wireless card is installed it is seen as eth1. 
> 
> On boot, I get messages about failures bringing up whichever one is 
not 
> installed. This seems ... inelegant.
> 
> Is there a good place to tweak under /etc so that it will only try to 
> bring up the interface whose hardware is present? Complaining if both 
> are missing would be neat, but not necessary.
> -- 
> Elyse Grasso
 
I never deliberately told them to... must be a default setting 
somewhere.
-- 
Elyse Grasso

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