Re: autoconnect to wired if link is up

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

Hi Nikolaus,

Nikolaus Filus wrote:
> Stefan Kost wrote:
>
> > hi,
> >
> > I am on ubuntu feisty and use network manager as I roam around with my  
> > laptop. On my desk I have a wired connection (static ip), elsewhere  
> > wifi. Now my problem is that whenever I boot the machine it connects  
> > to wifi. I checked with ethtool that the link status is readable and  
> > it works. Any ideas how I can make NM use the wired connection by  
> > default?
>
>
> short answer: doesn't work
>
> long answer: feisty's nm is modified to allow static ip by the system
> configuration files and is not officialy supported by upstream. Either you let
> NM manage both or none interfaces. Your use case is expected to be possible in
> the coming 0.7 version.
thanks for the quick reply. Would it work if I use dhcp on eth0? I mean would it 
preffer wired over wireless if there is a link on the wired iface?

Stefan
> Nikolaus
>
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