GUI Wireless Tools

[Ben Novack]

The solution I use is starting both wired and wireless at startup, but
hitting ctrl-c to kill the DHCP process on whichever one I don't want
to use. It's ugly - I've love for it to 'just work' as cleanly as it
does in Windows - but it gets the job done.


On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 12:56:41 +1100, David Coldrick <coldrick at gmail.com> wrote:
> The reason I do that is simply that - at least when I tried it a
> coupla months ago - startup got slowed down significantly by waiting
> for non-existent network, which is a royal pain on a laptop.
> 
> Regards,
> David
> 
> 
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:28:41 -0800, Ed Fletcher <ed at fletcher.ca> wrote:
> > David Coldrick wrote:
> > > I currently run with networking not started, and i do a sudo ifup eth0
> > > or sudo ifup wlan0 depending on my environment.
> > >
> > > Still trying to decide whete NetworkManager would be worthwhile for me
> > > - installed it once and had a bunch of probs. and went back to the
> > > usual.
> > >
> > > Do I need to configure network startup differently in order to use
> > > NetworkManager?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > David
> > >
> 
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