It was set to #timeout 60. After uncommenting and setting it to 5 the hang was only a few (5) seconds. See attached dmesg. Thanks!
** Attachment added: "dmesg with timeout 5" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20188255/dmesg.txt -- Ubuntu 8.10 booting hangs for a while on "configuring network interfaces" on iwl3945 and iwl4965 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293023 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs