On Sat, 6 Jul 2019 22:02:08 +0100 Joe <j...@jretrading.com> wrote: > On Sat, 6 Jul 2019 13:23:49 -0700 > Patrick Bartek <patrick.bar...@gmail.com> 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? > > 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? > > > > Why do you need to disable it? If you don't plug it in, nothing will > happen. Just ignore it and do whatever you do for wifi.
I thought that, too, but when I tried it With my sysvinit set up, the boot stalls at the detecting network. It may time out at some point, but after 30 sec, it hadn't. So, I decided just to disable it. > If you still want to, one way is to remove the auto startup from the > interfaces file, either auto or allow-hotplug, whichever you have. If > you leave in the address details, you can start it manually when you > need to. > That's basically what I was planning on doing. Thanks for the advice. B
