On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 2:10 AM, Ionut Biru <biru.ionut@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 05/27/2010 11:22 PM, Keith Hinton wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> The subject should spell it out, but what I'm wondering is if there is any >> way to force Arch to not probe for say eth0 when eth1 is prefered over eth0 >> and such? >> Thanks for any help on that question! >> Basically eth0 is my laptop's ethernet card, while eth1 is the wireless >> card. While the wireless card is used specifically for Internet connection, >> the wired is never used at all. I have my laptop configured through the use >> of netCFG to handle the wireless to make it a bit faster to configure. While >> that is the case, I would prefer that only that eth1 is used, and would like >> to see eht0 disappear totally from the list of detected network interfaces >> if Arches kernel is flexible enough to do this. >> If anyone could get back to me I would appreciate it very much. > > > you can disable it from rc.conf by adding a ! in front of eth0 like this: > > INTERFACES=(!eth0 eth1) > > -- > Ionut > Agreed you don't use the device, but its weird disabling that. I wouldn't do that. Just ignore it. You never know which thing will come to use when. PS: No offence meant. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com
