Richard Hector, 27.12.2013: > > Currently I'm using Network Manager on my laptop, which mostly works > except when I want to ssh in from my desktop, and I'm not logged in on > my laptop. Under those circumstances, the network isn't up. > > What I really want (I think) is for my laptop to connect to known > networks, either by wired or wireless, when it finds them, but allow me > to connect (probably with a gui) to other networks manually when they're > available. I also need to be able to connect manually to an OpenVPN VPN > from time to time. > > Additionally, where wired and wireless networks are both available, and > are the same, I'd like them to get the same IP address. (Addresses, in > fact - at some point I should get IPv6 running too ...) I've seen > suggestions to use bonding to achieve this, but I'm not sure how that > works when wired and wireless are not always the same network. > > Are there standard tools that will let me do these things? > > I think Network Manager might not handle it. Whereami might, but I think > it's been unmaintained for a while now. > > Any tips appreciated :-)
In the Network Manager applet, if you go into the settings for a wireless network, there's a check box at the bottom that says "usable by all users" or something like that. If that's checked, I think I still have to log in once to establish the wireless connection but the connection stays active after I log out. (And if the wireless network has "connect automatically" checked, I don't need to manually connect after I log in.) I think this is part of the solution you're looking for. If you want the laptop to connect without logging in at all, there's probably a way but I don't know offhand. (I occasionally start networks without logging into the gui, using nmcli, but that still requires me to use the console.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
