On Sun, 7 Jul 2019 09:30:22 +0200 <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 06, 2019 at 01:23:49PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Hi! All, > > > > It has become necessary to move this box to a different room where a > > wired ethernet connection is impractical. So, I'm going wireless with > > it. USB. No problem with that, but . . . What's the easiest way to > > prevent the wired ethernet (built-in on motherboard) from starting up? > > Just don't "auto eth0" in /etc/network/interfaces (e.g. comment out > that line). Then eth0 will be only brought up manually, i.e. when you > invoke "sudo ifup eth0". > > > I was thinking of just commenting its stanza out > > of /etc/network/interfaces. Any other more practical (or proper) way > > that's 100% easily reversable? > > Don't do that: Just getting rid of the auto part lets you still use > eth0 on demand, when you need it.
Thanks for the info. B
