Reloading Experience--Wireless

[Howard Coles Jr.]

On Tuesday 29 May 2007 09:31:36 pm Macario Valle wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 21:33 -0400, Larry Hartman wrote:
> > I haven't tried it with both my wired and wireless at the same time,
> > but
> > supposedly it is capable of managing both.
>
> You can indeed have more than one network card working at the same time.
> I have two wireless and a wired ethernet card.  I ussually connect with
> the wireless cards, both of them, but sometimes i connect only with the
> wired ethernet or one one wired and one wifi.  It was king of a little
> tricky etting the netgear usb MA111 working but doable.
>
> Here is my /etc/network/interfaces at the moment iwth both wirelss
> working, SSID not the real ones.
>
> # The loopback network interface
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
> address 127.0.0.1
> netmask 255.0.0.0
>
> # The primary network interface
> auto ath0
> iface ath0 inet dhcp
> # wireless-* options are implemented by the wireless-tools package
> wireless-mode managed
> wireless-essid BarkingDog
> auto wlan0
> iface wlan0 inet dhcp
> wireless-mode managed
> wireless-essid ScatchyCat

Well, if I'm going to have to do things manually with config files, why would 
I want to use NM?   I mean, I'm with you, without WICD, I can do what I want 
with ifup and ifdown and properly configured interfaces and wpa_supplicant 
files.
NM winds up just getting in the way.
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See Ya'
Howard Coles Jr.
John 3:16!