Clayton wrote:
Another point : in my experience, wireless support in OpenSuSE, when used in conjunction with a wired connection, requires some manual manipulation (i.e., the TCP/IP stack won't automatically "switch" to using the wireless upon disconnecting the LAN cable) -- I usually deal with it by manually doing a "ifdown eth0" (that's the wired one) followed by an "ifdown wlan0 / ifup wlan0" (that's the wireless). This issue may be due to the specificities of my setup though. YMMV.
Have you tried that with oS 11.2? No. I haven't had the opportunity to test 11.2 at all yet. Planning on doing that during the holiday season (starting with a server install).
On my netbook running one 11.2 and using KNetworkManager (using the ath9k WiFi driver), the switch over from wired to wireless is perfect... I'm an old-fashioned guy, I don't use NetworkManager ;-)
if I'm on wireless and I plug in a network cable, it takes a couple seconds, and I see a popup on my KDE4 taskbar letting me know it's connected via the wired NIC... I unplug, and it notifies of the disconnect, and swaps over to my WiFi... which takes a little bit longer to connect than the wired because it has to negotiate the WEP part. Nice to know. Thanks for the info.
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