From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: Using the network configuration tool to set the wireless interface to NOT START at boot (ONBOOT=no in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eht1) does not work. Also, the wireless card parameters are stored in ifcfg-eth1 and are read from the file at boot, not from the /etc/pcmcia wireless.opts file. cardctl eject 2 followed by cardctl insert 2 causes the wireless card to be stopped and then reconfigured using wireless.opts. RH is no longer using network.opts and the network starup up scripts is infact by-passing the OPTS files at boot. Not being able to boot and have the wireless interface not come up is a pain in certain situations where you have a choice of wired and wireless interfaces. It would also be nice if the drivers (here orinoco_cs) implemented the TXPOWER parameter so that using iwconfig eth1 TXPOWER off, you could turn off the wireless radio like you can do under Windows 2000. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. configure wireless interface not to start at boot 2. reboot 3. ifconfig show that the wireless interface did start at boot Additional info:
This is because it's brought up from hotplug; you can set ONHOTPLUG=no.