Setting the timeout for the network card

John Moniz john.moniz-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org
Fri Mar 18 23:19:01 UTC 2005


Jim Skehill wrote:

>I'm running Mandrake 9.2 on a laptop with a Wireless and a Network card. 
>
>When I start up without a network cable plugged into the network card (i.e.
>using a wireless connection) it takes around a minute longer then when it is
>plugged in. I assume that this is because the startup sequence is repeatedly
>trying the network card connection before eventually timing out. 
>
>Does anyone know where this timeout is set? I'd like to shorten it.
>
Jim, are you mounting filesystems on network devices at boot? If so, you 
might use the _netdev option in /etc/fstab (man mount).
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