Just to reiterate if it wasn't clear - I routinely use wireless and wired networks together and don't have the routing problem von is talking about. (waproamd and ifplugd) Usually if you care it's just a matter of unplugging the one you don't want to use. If your wireless card is built in, then I guess that's not an option.
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 at 17:02 -0600, Von Fugal wrote: > * Dave Smith [Sun, 10 Apr 2005 at 12:02 -0600] > > >I use waproamd. Whenever I enter a new wireless network, if it is wide > > >open I am connected automatically. If it needs a wep key, I just have to > > >save that key to a file, and I am connected automatically that time and > > >every time in the future. No clicking, no fussing. > > > > What about moving between wired and wireless networks. In Windows, if a > > wireless connection is available, it is used. If a wired network is > > available, it is used (not sure what it does if both are available). In > > the past, I have always fired up an xterm and run /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 > > stop && /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start. This is somewhat painful, and I'd > > like for Linux to automagically use whatever network is available > > without *any* user intervention. Ideas? > > Like he said, waproamd will automatically connect to a wireless network > if it is available, and wep encrypted networks too provided you have the > key saved in the right file. > > Then ther is ifplugd, the equivalent of waproamd for wired. Now, for me, > when I have both wireless and wired available both are enabled and I end > up with routing issues. Hans swears that my routing issues shouldn't be > issues at all, and is indeed the way it should work, but for me it > breaks. But you can try it and it will probably work for you, I admit > that my computer has some strange quirks, and probably mostly due to the > stupid broadcomm wireless card that I have to run with ndiswrapper (aka > linuxant). > > The routing issue, if you care, is I get two default routes. Supposedly, > this should work, and it should just pick one to go out on, and in the > event one becomes unavailable it will use the other. But I guess for > some reason my computer gets confused and uses _neither_ default route > and nothing works until I delete a route. > > Von Fugal > .===================================. > | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | > | Don't Fear the Penguin. | > | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | > `===================================' -- .O. Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. ..O http://hans.fugal.net | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg OOO | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach --------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460
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