On 12/08/2011 09:34 AM, Fabien Archambault wrote: > On 12/08/2011 09:11 AM, Jeff Gordon wrote: >> Hi, Folks -- >> >> I'm setting up an Acer Aspire 5250 as a Christmas gift, CentOS 6 netinstall >> insists on trying to configure wlan0 but I'm using a wired DSL connection, >> consequently netinstall fails and only offers the option to Retry. >> >> How can I get it to bypass the wlan0 idea and go straight to eth0...? >> >> Thanks, >> > Hi, > > I believe there is an hardware switch available to shutdown the wirless > on this laptop. If you disable it then no wlan0 can be used. > > Fabien > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Hi Jeff, or try to open a console and disable the WLAN interface (ifconfig wlan0 down), and set the default route to the ETH interface (route add default eth0). Cheers, Bert.