[NTLUG:Discuss] Laptops, Wireless & Network Routing

[Stephen Davidson]

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Greetings.

I am having an issue with my networks, have been ever since SuSE started
picking up and using my laptop's onboard wireless around 10.0.  Whenever
the wireless card is enabled, when I am plugged into a LAN, the routing
from the LAN's DHCP does not get picked up (with consequences I don't
have to spell out here).  This failure occurs even when the wireless
card can not find a network, and especially when there is a secure
network that it can not log on to in the vicinity.  My 'workaround' has
been 'pccardctl eject 2' (as the onboard wireless seems to be plugged
into an internal PCMCIA port).  With the Network Manager in SuSE 10.1
(and with the increasing availability of wireless networks), this is
starting to become less workable.  I have been quietly googling for a
solution, but have not yet found the appropriate search terms, and no
fix has yet been issued.  Is there a config issue somewhere, or
something else that I change to get this working properly?

If it would be helpful, I can be at the Linux Install Project this Saturday.

Regards,
Steve
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