[F8] Boot fails on any second attemp, Network manager, general Java and WLan issues.

[Rodney Morris]

On Oct 29, 2007 12:20 PM, timohirt <timohirt at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> yesterday I installed Fedora 8 on my T61 and I like it. But there are a
> few bugs which are annoying to me.
. . .
> Oh, and there are some network related issues too. I use the Intel
> 4965AGN Wlan adapter which Fedora supports out of the box. Thats great!
> But I cant disable initializatio on boot time. At any boot the wlan0
> interface determies a IP address. I use the Network Manager and cant
> disable that. Its annoying because you cant break with CNTR + C, then
> the system reboots.

To disable your 4965 wireless card from initializing on boot, (1) as
root or with sudo, open /etc/sysconfig/networking-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0
with your favorite text editor, and (2) change the ONBOOT parameter
from ONBOOT=y to ONBOOT=n.

Rod