LinuxMusicians

Posted: **Tue Jul 23, 2013 11:19 am**

OK so I installed KX studio from a netboot disc and all is up and running ok.
The only problem is that when I run it up with no network attached I get the following messages
"Waiting For Network Cofiguration"
then
"Waiting up to 60 seconds for network configuration"
then
"Starting with networking disabled" or something like that.
It then comes up ok but, as it says, networking is disabled. I don't seem able to do anything in network manager.

The problem with this is I use my laptop mostly for DJ'ing and so don't have, or indeed want, a network connection when using it as such.
However when I am preparing for gigs, adding music to the library, creating playlists etc. I sometimes need to connect to the network to download/transfer stuff.
If I boot with no network the only way I can connect seems to be to reboot with a wired network attached.
I want to be able to boot up, with or without a network and then enable/disable Networking/Wireless as I wish via the panel icon as I used to do when I used Ubuntu Studio.
Can anyone point me to a setup guide please?
I've found some references to this via google but most don't help me much or point to the ubuntu forum which is offline at the moment.
Any help greatly appreciated.

Posted: **Sat Jul 27, 2013 11:03 pm**

There's two things you can do,

You can hide the symptom by commenting out the sleep lines in /etc/init/failsafe.conf

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        $PLYMOUTH message --text="Waiting for network configuration..." || :
#        sleep 40

        $PLYMOUTH message --text="Waiting up to 60 more seconds for network configuration..." || :
#       sleep 59

but the error points to a problem with your /etc/network/interfaces file, what is the output of

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$ cat /etc/network/interfaces

Links:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/185515/d ... -boot-time
http://askubuntu.com/questions/213614/w ... on-problem

Posted: **Sat Jul 27, 2013 11:05 pm**

I just have this in my /etc/network/interfaces

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$ cat /etc/network/interfaces 
# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

Good luck.

Posted: **Mon Jul 29, 2013 12:31 pm**

Hi psychicstate,

I had the following in my /etc/network/interfaces..

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# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

I have commented out the eth0 lines to give me

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# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
#auto eth0
#iface eth0 inet dhcp

This seems to have cured the problem. I can now boot up with or without a network connection and control my connections through network manager as and when I wish.
Is that all I need to do?
Is there a laymans guide anywhere as to what these files do such as /etc/network/interfaces or /etc/init/failsafe.conf?
Thanks for the help.

LinuxMusicians

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