Hello people, I am trying to find the best way to use the Network Manager for controlling the network connections. Perhaps I am not fully understanding how is the NM meant to be used, so I am opening this thread hoping to get some hint or advice.
In short, my main problem is that I am expecting to have some easily accessible "Enable" , "Disable", "Properties" buttons for each network interface. The NM applet does enable/disable my 3G connection when clicking on it . But there is no way to control the Ethernet card ! Perhaps I should explain exactly what I want . I need 2 network profiles : - Ethernet connection (DHCP) - 3G modem (for internet) + Ethernet connection (static IP) I need this because at work I want to browse the web via the 3G , but at the same time still be able to still access some internal servers via the Ethernet card. As far as I can see, when enabling the 3G connection the Network Manager automatically disables the Ethernet . And there seems to be no way to prevent this ? I am also not seeing the ability to switch to alternate configurations of the "wired" connection inside the NM applet. Is is possible to : - define multiple configurations for the Ethernet card ? - and, easily switch the configuration of the Ethernet card (preferably with the NM applet) , even if there is a 3G connection enabled ? By the way, the OS is Ubuntu Linux 10.04 , with NetworkManager 0.8. I remember that some time ago in Ubuntu there used to be a connections configuration tool that allowed the creation of several network "profiles". I'm wondering what is the replacement of that concept in the current "Edit connection" of the NetworkManager. Thanks, Adrian M. _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
