Getting boot not to hang if ethernet not plugged into modem

[Cheryl Homiak]

Is there something one can put in /etc/network/interfaces or somewhere so 
that ethernet card coming up will be conditional. right now, if I boot on 
either my laptop or desktop with "auto" set for eth0 and the cable modem 
isn't connected to the ethernet card, the whole boot hangs for quite a 
while. i noticed when experimenting with Fedora recently that there was 
only a brief pause if the cable modem wasn't plugged in, then the boot 
continued almost immediately. Not trying to compare distros; it's just 
that having this happen with Fedora made me wonder if it was possible to 
set something up in debian. I don't always know when I am going to boot on 
a computer without the modem connected and it seems anyway that there 
could be a better solution than changing /etc/network/interfaces whenever 
i think I might be doing this.
Thanks.

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Cheryl
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