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Boot without Ethernet cable?

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#1

When I boot from the Grub menu (I dual boot w/ Win2k), the gui will only load if my ethernet cable is plugged in (I used it, rather than my wireless card, during the install; I don't have a working CD drive, so did it via Windows and over the network). Ubuntu stops loading until the cable is plugged, even though I disable it (in favor of the wireless card) when the gui is up.

Can I somehow change my setup process to either look for the wireless card instead; or, since it doesn't need an Internet connection during boot up, change it so that it skips this step entirely?

Thanks all for your advice and assistance.

#2

check out the ifplugd package.