Reloading Experience--Wireless

[Derek Broughton]

Howard Coles Jr. wrote:

> On Wednesday 30 May 2007 06:35:25 pm Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Howard Coles Jr. wrote:
>> > Thanks indeed.  These kinds of posts should show up more often.  I'll
>> > have to investigate the WICD, because I have completely forsaken NM
>> > because you can
>> > only have one NIC up at a time.  Stupid idea if you ask me.
>>
>> Not strictly true - though NM will only _control_ one interface at a
>> time. It's not so much a "stupid" idea as just not having become mature
>> enough to
>> handle more than one.  I've had both my wireless (NM controlled) and
>> wired
>> (/etc/network/interfaces controlled) NICs up at once.  That's when I
>> fixed things and made sure that NM was controlling both...
> 
> Well, NM will kill, yes, kill, the wired connection if you engage the
> wireless
> or vice versa.  Its not just indifferent.  So even though you turn on the
> wired or wireless cards in the interfaces file, as soon as you
> click "connect" or "activate" (can't remember which its been too long) it
> kills the other connection.

No, not true.  If your wired connection is in /etc/network/interfaces, NM
will happily manage a wireless connection independently.  DO NOT however,
click on the NM menu entry for the wired connection - _then_ it will try to
remove and restart it.
-- 
derek