On Wed, 11 Apr 2012, Mike Connors wrote: > Yes, I understand that and that's why I'm suggesting to either delete or > comment out (#) the eth0 stanza from /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf. Thdn upon > boot, eth0 will not be brought up and a def route via its interface won't > be injected into the routing table. As I mentioned a temporary fix would > then be to create a rc.inet1.bak file that you copy over rc.inet1.conf > when you want to connect to a wired eth lan.
These require root access; I'm trying to avoid that and follow the KISS principal for the uesr's sake. > I believe the static ip config of eth0 is what's causing the problem. I'm > not sure if it's the net mgmt software, the driver or the OS itself that > isn't dealing correctly with it. When I create a static ip config for eth0 > it behaves in mostly the same way with the exception that packets aren't > being routed out via eth0 even though there's a def gwy for eth0 in the > routing table. I could agree with this if the Sony's behavior was seen on the other 6 portables on which I've run linux and Slackware. This Sony Vaio is unique in the persistence with which it refuses to connect to wireless networks. :-) In the next couple of days, I'll de-activate wicd and install, configure, and make active at boot network manager. Gotta' try that first. My suspicion is that the wireless chip is still new enough that the driver does not handle it under all circumstances, even with the 3.2.7 kernel. While kernel versions pop out regularly not all drivers are updated at the same frequency. I have the 3.2.11 kernel tarball here and can install it or a higher number kernel and see if that helps. This chip has caused issues with different brands and models of portables running different linux ditributions (arch and ubuntu show up frequently in web searches). Some have been resolved by upgrading the kernel to 2.6.28 so it may well be a driver issue. But, in that case, upgrading to the 3.2.7 kernel should have fixed the problem. Shrug. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
