On 08:47 Thu 02 Aug     , Dan Cowsill wrote:
> I've got wifi configured with madwifi and use my wifi interface a lot
> more than the ethernet I had thought that removing net.eth0 from
> rc-update, but that didn't seem to work.  Every time I booted, the
> interface tried to go up and get dhcp information.  I then read about
> and used a preup function to check that interfaces are actually
> connected before they are brought up, and this essentially solves the
> problem.  It occurs to me that it would just be a whole lot easier and
> cleaner if net.eth0 just didn't try to start at all, but I haven't
> found any way to do this short of removing the init.d script from
> rc-update.
> 
> My question is, is there any way to stop net.eth0 from starting
> besides ethtool's preup function?

There's yet another solution to this problem:

$ cat net
config_eth0=( null )

So just set the configuration for the interface to `null' so it doesn't
do atything when brought up at boot time.

Regards,
	Aleks