Hi, Fabien -- Thanks. :-) I removed two screws that seemed to be holding a cover in place over the HD-and-memory compartment, but the cover remained pretty tightly in place anyway. Dunno what I'm missing -- but if there's a switch in this laptop I'd figure it must be in there. (?) Now what... -- Jeff -- On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 09:34:10AM +0100, Fabien Archambault wrote: > On 12/08/2011 09:11 AM, Jeff Gordon wrote: > > Hi, Folks -- > > > > I'm setting up an Acer Aspire 5250 as a Christmas gift, CentOS 6 netinstall > > insists on trying to configure wlan0 but I'm using a wired DSL connection, > > consequently netinstall fails and only offers the option to Retry. > > > > How can I get it to bypass the wlan0 idea and go straight to eth0...? > > > > Thanks, > > > Hi, > > I believe there is an hardware switch available to shutdown the wirless > on this laptop. If you disable it then no wlan0 can be used. > > Fabien > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- -- Jeff -- <http://www.wellnow.com> "There's nothing left in the world to prove. All that's worth doing is to love one another, using whatever means are available to serve." _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos