Automatic reconnect to wireless network

[Derek Broughton]

Donn wrote:

> On Friday, 18 July 2008 18:47:19 Derek Broughton wrote:
>> This is true.  Network manager doesn't understand the use of multiple
>> concurrent interfaces
> Does 'network manager' mean a gui thing (my laptop runs Ubuntu) or is it
> some lower-level thing? 

Network manager is "lower level".  knetwork-manager and it's gnome
counterpart are the GUIs for it.

> It seems weird that it can't handle eth0 and 
> wireless at the same time -- even Windoze can do it!

It's easy enough to set up, but I don't actually know anybody who needs a
wired _and_ wireless connection working at the same time (I know such
topologies exist, but it's an uncommon requirement for a home computer). 
Why would Windows do it either?  My experience is that Windows uses a wired
connection when available - and making it use two connections at once is
harder than with Ubuntu. 
-- 
derek