Please be more verbose, what exactly do you mean by that?

Closing this. If some information can be provided, reopening is possible.

What information do you need here? I´ve written everything I know about this above, and I think it should be enough. If you have an USB ethernet or wlan adapter it isn´t always present in your system, so the "if hot-plugged" mode is appropriate here.

Sorry I forgot to reopen the bug

Martin?

Hmm, right. The same for PC cards.

Will this be in 10.1?
Anyway thanks that you implement so many suggestions from your users!

Reassigning to the new maintainer of yast2-network.

move to later

reopen to solve

from /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg.template :

## Type: list(auto,hotplug,ifplugd,nfsroot,manual,off,onboot)
## Default: auto
#
# STARTMODE tells ifup when a interface should be set up. Possible values are:
# - auto:    start it as soon as the interface is available. Either when booting
#            or when a device is plugged or initialized at runtime
# - hotplug: alias for auto, only difference is that configurations with that
#            startmode are not considered to be mandatory if list of mandatory
#            devices is derived automatically.
# - ifplugd: interface will be controlled by ifplugd daemon. (If you like to use
#            multiple interfaces mutually exclusive you have to set also
#            IFPLUGD_PRIORITY.)
# - nfsroot: Nearly like 'auto'. But interfaces with this startmode will never
#            be shut down via 'rcnetwork stop'. 'ifdown <iface>' still works.
#            Use this when you have a nfs root filesystem.
# - manual:  start it only when ifup is called manually
# - off:     will not be started at all
# - onboot:  alias for auto, deprecated, only for backward compliance

Christian, do you agree to set STARTMODE="hotplug" for hotplug (usb, pcmci) devices?

Yes, do that.

fixed in yast2-network-2.16.11