Ubuntu and startup

[Tim Writer]

Noah John Gellner <noah.gellner-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> writes:

> After my ongoing Mozilla problems I switched my laptop to Ubuntu. So far
> so good. My only problem is that the boot up takes forever. Of
> particular problem is having the process wait for network to be
> configured, which can take a long time or indeed might not happen at
> all. I know how to change this in Gentooland, but have no idea in
> Ubunto-Debian-ville. Can anyone on this list let me know or direct to
> information? Much obliged.

In vanilla Debian, you can CTRL-C network startup.  This is useful if you
have a notebook that is sometimes (dis)connected.  Alternatively, you can
write a pre-up script (in /etc/network/interfaces) that checks for
connectivity using mii-tool.  This only works with NICs and drivers with MII
support.

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