Re: [Devil-linux-develop] [Devil-Linux 1.4 0000030]: In Setup: can't select 'none' or 'default' for network adapter type

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Smith [mailto:bw...@re...]
> Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 9:47 AM
> To: Devil Linux
> Subject: Re: [Devil-linux-develop] [Devil-Linux 1.4 0000030]: In Setup:
> can't select 'none' or 'default' for network adapter type
> 
> > Might also be good to have an option for 'none' or 'disable' which
> would
> > disable the ethernet port altogether? But less important.
> 
> How would we go about disabling the port all together?
> 
> Loading the module seems to be less important with the 2.6 kernel
> since most hardware is automatically detected and the modules
> automatically loaded.  Even if there is no module specified, there is
> a good chance the NIC will still be active.
> 
> (Active in the sense the lights will be blinking, although it
> shouldn't have a IPv4 address.  Not sure about IPv6.)

"ifconfig ethX down" should do the trick.

Heiko