Networking

[Daniel Pittman]

"OOzy Pal" <oozypal at gmail.com> writes:

> I need to setup my wireless router (ADSL). My Kubuntu can find two
> cards
>
> eth0 (Ethernet) and eth1 (Wireless)
>
> I need to disable eth0 and keep eth1 up and running for wireless. How
> can I do this? Do I actually need to disable eth0 to work with eth1?

No.  You don't need to disable any network interface in order to use any
other network interface.

If both interfaces are connected and configured with a default gateway
your routing table may choose one or the other as default or whatever
but, trust me, both of them work fine without being disabled.


If you want an easier way to deal with selecting between them or
whatever you might consider using NetworkManager -- the default tool in
Feisty -- to work with them.

[...]

> Here is my /etc/network/interfaces file content

[...]

> ifdown eth0

That is wrong: ifdown isn't a valid statement in /etc/network/interfaces

Regards,
        Daniel
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