TITLE: Ubuntu network timeout
DATE: 2019-04-10
AUTHOR: John L. Godlee
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I installed a minimal Ubuntu server image on a little Toshiba NB100
netbook I was given as a present and there was an annoying side
effect whereby if a wireless network wasn't detected on boot the
bootup process would wait for about 5 minutes looking for a network
before moving on. This happened every single time I booted up
because I preferred to only search for wireless networks manually.
The answer was to edit the networking.service config file:
sudo systemctl edit networking.service
Then enter into the file:
Service
TimeoutStartSec=20sec
to set the timeout period when looking for wireless networks to be
20 seconds.
