Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Given that limitation, speed of boot becomes a major criterion. F10 (and also, believe it or not, Pupeee) took *over* ten minutes -- yes, real sixty-second minutes; it's not a typo -- just to boot. And then had to find wifi.
WHAT!!!!!!???????
I just booted mine for the morning, and it was on the login GUI in 50 SECONDS!
Once I entered my password it was connected to the network in under 30 SECONDS (and I use WPA-PSK).
You have install/setup problems. What services are you running? There may be a number of services that are waiting on the network to come up to check something and are waiting for timeouts, missing that the link is down so don't bother to try (ntp does it right, for example).
Now that you mention it, it does sound like sendmail/samba, etc., waiting for DNS on a disconnected network.