stopping eth0 from trying to come up and dhcp itself

[solman66]

Hey all,
I'm relatively new to debian, but so far i love it.
My wifi driver needs the ndiswrapper, so i used my normal ethernet port for installation (used the net install).

Now i have my wifi up and working and i don't really use the ethernet at all, but debian still trys to bring it up at every boot.

I've looked in the system v editor, and don't really see anything as far as dhcp or eth0 or discoverer. Where can i go to disable this from starting at boot? Its not a problem, its just annoying as it slows my boot time by quite a bit.

I've also fgrep'd all the files in rc2.d (my default runlevel is 2) and couldn't find eth0.

Any help is appreciated.

[lakerdonald]

i think there's an
/etc/init.d/functions
how about searching there.

[FyberOptyx]

see if commenting out the section in /etc/networks/interfaces does anything

[solman66]

thanks guys, i'll try that out tonight... i've spent a total of 6 hours at my apartment in the past 2 days, 2 of that playing THUG 2 and the other 4 sleeping so i haven't had the chance to try it so far.