[NTLUG:Discuss] Laptops, Wireless & Network Routing

[Chris Cox]

. Daniel wrote:
> I don't suppose you have considered switching distros have you?  Many have 
> moved away from SuSE for moral reasons...

:)  Not an especially helpful comment... and just plain wrong for a
myriad of reasons.  A distro switch is not going to fix the
fundamental brokenness of NetworkManager.

However, using the ifup/ifdown way doesn't address the dynamics
of an ever changing network (e.g. wireless on the move).



> 
>> 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?


I'd switch to ifup/ifdown instead of using NetworkManager.
Then for the /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-eth-id-* for your wired adapter,
I'd make sure you have STARTMODE='ifplugd' (actually, do the
same for wlan interface too).

It's been awhile since I played with this.. but I don't remember
it doing the wrong thing... :)


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