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I see that this thread is over but I still want to put in my 2c. I use
WICD as my network manager. Since being introduced to that program I
have NOOOOOOO problems connecting to wireless or wired connection. The
network manager (I was told - and also found out from my own
experience) is pretty lousy so WICD, answers the problem very well. <br>
Errol<br>
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Nils Kassube wrote:
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<pre wrap="">David McGlone wrote:
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<pre wrap="">This is what my interfaces file looks like on my laptop:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
#auto eth0
#iface eth0 inet static
#address 192.168.2.2
#netmask 255.255.255.0
#network 192.168.2.0
#broadcast 192.168.2.255
#gateway 192.168.2.1
#dns-nameserver 192.168.2.1
#dns-search dmcghome
iface wlan0 inet static
address 192.168.2.3
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.2.1
dns-nameserver 192.168.2.1
dns-search dmcghome
wireless-essid dmcghome
auto wlan0
I had to comment out eth0 because for some odd reason, I couldn't
connect to wlan0 with the eth0 info in the file
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I think the odd reason is that both eth0 and wlan0 would be on the same
network, i.e. 192.168.2.0. If you don't have your eth0 connected, the
network seems to be unreachable because data are sent on either eth0 or
wlan0 but not on both at the same time. That is the disadvantage of
static entries if your hardware connection isn't static. You have to
enable / disable the interfaces manually if they aren't connected.
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<pre wrap="">Without this info in the file, Internet wouldn't work for me.
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Then you didn't try to use networkmanager or wicd lately, they don't
need static entries in the interfaces file. And they can handle
switching wired/wireless more or less automatically.
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<pre wrap="">I doubt this will help, but I hope it does.
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At least it is always interesting to see how others have solved their
network problems. Fortunately Bruce seems to have his machine working in
the meantime.
Nils
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