Re: Wifi + wired laptop

2005-09-21 Thread Przemyslaw Nowaczyk
Edd Barrett wrote: Hi, My laptop has a wifi and a wired connection. Sometimes my wifi is unreliable and does not work atall , so it is useful to plug in a cat5 cable instead. OpenBSD still tries to use wifi. I thought perhaps it might time out and decide to use the wired interface, but it does

Re: Wifi + wired laptop

2005-09-21 Thread Edd Barrett
Could you possibly have written a more useless plea for help? yes You haven't said 1) what version of OpenBSD you are using, 2) what laptop you have, 3) what wireless card you have, 4) a copy of the kernel dmesg output. None of this matters given that the unreliability isnt anything to do

Re: Wifi + wired laptop

2005-09-21 Thread Alexander Hall
Edd Barrett wrote: ... Thats exactly what I do right now. I have a script with the suid bit set that i can run to switch interfaces. Its the suid bit I dont like. ... Maybe you would feel more comfortable using sudo, if it is just that suid bit that annoys you?

Wifi + wired laptop

2005-09-20 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi, My laptop has a wifi and a wired connection. Sometimes my wifi is unreliable and does not work atall , so it is useful to plug in a cat5 cable instead. OpenBSD still tries to use wifi. I thought perhaps it might time out and decide to use the wired interface, but it does not. Th only solution