Here is ip addr with no cable and just wireless. However, I have manually removed the offending eth0 entry...I can reboot and run this again with the offending eth0 entry if needed.
root@orca:/etc/network# ip addr
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:24:e8:fa:3a:aa brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet6 fe80::224:e8ff:fefa:3aaa/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:24:d6:4d:f4:5c brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet6 fe80::224:d6ff:fe4d:f45c/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
root@orca:/etc/network#