<quote who="James Gregory"> > So these days I'm on Ubuntu and there's this network manager thing which > can see that /etc/network/interfaces has both wired and unwired networks, > and it works out which I'm using and configures things appropriately. > Which is very nice. > > But what I want is a fusion of these two technologies. Is there a way I > can setup Ubuntu to automatically use a wired network if it's available, > and if not do this search for available wireless networks, setting the > appropriate key if one is found?
That's exactly what NetworkManager does. :-) Plug in wired and you're on, unplug, and it'll use your preferred wifi network (ie. one that you've chosen before). Is it not doing this for you? Perhaps you're not actually using NetworkManager, but the installed-by-default network configuration tools? If so, I strongly recommend NM, depending on which kind of wireless hardware you have (the Atheros drivers suck for scanning, so they make NM entirely pointless, though a very recent version works around some of that breakage, to the detriment of some niceness). - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ "So I'll have to talk about what I know instead. If you are so inclined, you may infer that I am totally oblivious to anything I don't talk about today." - Larry Wall -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
