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I have encountered this in numerous older systems with Firewire (1394) adapters that show up as network adapters. It appeared that the old reference driver would load, assume that there was a link on the adapter and attempt the network startup and DHCP on that adapter. The default timeout is 30 seconds I believe, which is for each adapter. Also I have had this for Wireless adapters as on boot they attempt to initialize. There are really two fixes, Disable all unused adapters, or remove the TCP/IP stack from each adapter, the latter of which I do on the Firewire until I can get updated drivers, if they exist. Also if you do remove the DHCP Client from the install, I found that the system still waits for the timeout on all adapters that do not have an IP address manually assigned. Either disable or assign an address.