Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (508 mails)

[Peter Nikolic <p.nikolic1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 02 Dec 2010 16:09:49 Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 02:03:38PM +0000, Peter Nikolic wrote:
> > On Thursday 02 Dec 2010 08:36:26 Per Jessen wrote:
> > > Peter Nikolic wrote:
> > > > I as many other do have a laptop  that has wired   and wireless
> > > > networking as standard  but sometimes i need to use a Mobile
> > > > broadband dongal  USB
> > > > what is needed is an easy way to completely stop the
> > > > wired and wireless networking to use the mobile system    , The
> > > > reason for this is that if wireless is disconnected but enabled 
> > > > then you can not get a route via the mobile connection   you have to
> > > > completely disable the wireless to use the mobile and easy way to do
> > > > this is a much needed addition  a means of picking which networking
> > > > device is active .
> > >
> > > Isn't this a job for the NetworkManager?
> >
> > It fails  miserably if it is supposed to do it always has done ,
>
> Are you sure?  It works just fine here for me in my testing with my
> devices, I do this all the time with my laptop.
>
> Just disable wireless from the icon menu and all should be fine.


Nope no good here they only way is to actually go into yast and delete the 
info for the wireless device   logout  login then the dongal works fine 
> > It would seem there is need for a complete re-think of the networking
> > control system   it has been of questionable quality for a while now 
> > but this issue has highlighted yet another issue  that needs resolution
>
> What, you want something like ConMan?  Heh, good luck :)

Well it seems it must be  in reality because  people are not going to want to 
go thru the hoops i have to jump just to use their USB Dongal are they  ? ..


Pete .


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