Networking installation mishap - wireless, eth

[Christoph Georgi]

What do you mean with "I cannot access the Internet"? Do you get an IP 
address or are they static. Can you ping the gateway? ... Please be a 
bit more specific.

Usually there is no such thing as a primary and secondary interface. 
Linux uses what ever is there.. And if eth is up and wireless is up, the 
kernel will route according to its routing table ('$ ip route show')

Please post the outputs of '$ sudo ifup eth0' and '$ ifconfig'..

regards
.christoph


Carthik Sharma wrote:
> When installing Ubuntu, I selected my wireless interface as the
> "primary" interface. I think this is what is causing my problems
> currently.
> 
> The wireless card, and accessing work perfectly, thank you :)
> 
> The problem, though is that when I turn off the wireless card, and
> reboot with the ethernet cable plugged in, I cannot access the
> internet.
> 
> So,
> 1) How can I "re-configure" things so that my "primary" interface is
> the ethernet card, and the wireless card is secondary?
> Or
> 2) re-configure things so that Ubuntu tries to connect to the
> network/internet using the ethernet  (LAN) card  and only if that does
> not work does it try to bring up the wireless card ?
> 
> Thank you,
> Carthik.

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