On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 19:08 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
This is on a laptop. How wireless interfaces work on non-portable computers is, I think, a different matter altogether.
I installed SUSE 10 while disconnected from my LAN and all was well. Wireless cam up on boot, I got IP address etc, updated resolve.conf and set routes and life was good as far as those things go.
I then reinstalled, while attached to LAN by wire and air, and now I can get an IP address, but the other things don't happen.
I've used find and grep and vim till I'm blue in the face and I don't see what to change. Yast doesn't give me any options that I can find, and I can't find any likely references to resolv.conf or the various interfaces I've used.
Please tell me, what do I change?
The most desired behaviour is this: If wire is plugged in, it's configured with IP address etc, routes are set up and resolv.conf is reconfigured.
Install ifplugd package and adjust settings for card using YaST.
If wireless is plugged in, it's configured with IP address etc, local routes are set up. If wire is not plugged in, then all routes are set up and resolv.conf is reconfigured.
If two (or more) wireless devices work, the fastest is configured with default routes and resolv.conf is reconfigured, if there is no wire.
Don't. Use one or the other or you are just asking for problems.
Just for the moment, I will settle for wireless working as my primary interface (as it is).
-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998