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 , 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 Pete . -- Powered by openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.34.7-0.5-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.4.4 (KDE 4.4.4) "release 3" 13:59 up 12 days 21:22, 4 users, load average: 0.32, 0.13, 0.06 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org