Automatic reconnect to wireless network

[Martin Laberge]

On Friday 18 July 2008 15:36:53 Derek Broughton wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

Does anyone ever used 'wicd' ?

this replace network manager, and do all the stuff
you would ever wanted network-manager to do.

all this automagically.

apt-get install wicd

I personnaly add it to my first steps after installing a laptop.


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Martin Laberge
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