Often when I do backups on laptop, I'll plug in wired ethernet - NM happily switches the connection from wireless to wired -
however it always leaves the wireless on as well + correct if its a different subnet than wired + arguably wrong if its the same subnet - probably a bug ? - or at least it should offer to shutoff wireless when the 2 subnets are the same.
Since the route via wireless is active, the backup could/does use wireless instead of wired. So I usually right click the nm applet and disable wireless.
Today - that option along with the disable netowrking option are grayed out and I can not uncheck the 'emable wireless/networking radio buttons.
This is f13 - fully updated (+ some testing and 2.6.32.6-47 kernel from koji). NetworkManager is 8.1.4.git20100817.
Anyway know what causes this or suggestions on how to deal with it ?
Thanks ..
gene/
Genes MailLists lists@sapience.com writes:
Often when I do backups on laptop, I'll plug in wired ethernet - NM happily switches the connection from wireless to wired -
however it always leaves the wireless on as well + correct if its a different subnet than wired + arguably wrong if its the same subnet - probably a bug ? - or at least it should offer to shutoff wireless when the 2 subnets are the same.
Since the route via wireless is active, the backup could/does usewireless instead of wired. So I usually right click the nm applet and disable wireless.
Today - that option along with the disable netowrking option aregrayed out and I can not uncheck the 'emable wireless/networking radio buttons.
This is f13 - fully updated (+ some testing and 2.6.32.6-47 kernelfrom koji). NetworkManager is 8.1.4.git20100817.
Anyway know what causes this or suggestions on how to deal with it ?
I am in the same boat and it is darn annoying. I'm thinking that I may have to go to a routed wireless net instead of bridged so that I can differentiate between the two links at the routing level and add a bit of routing cost to the wireless link.
-wolfgang
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 07:54 -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
Genes MailLists lists@sapience.com writes:
Often when I do backups on laptop, I'll plug in wired ethernet - NM happily switches the connection from wireless to wired -
however it always leaves the wireless on as well + correct if its a different subnet than wired + arguably wrong if its the same subnet - probably a bug ? - or at least it should offer to shutoff wireless when the 2 subnets are the same.
Since the route via wireless is active, the backup could/does usewireless instead of wired. So I usually right click the nm applet and disable wireless.
Today - that option along with the disable netowrking option aregrayed out and I can not uncheck the 'emable wireless/networking radio buttons.
This is f13 - fully updated (+ some testing and 2.6.32.6-47 kernelfrom koji). NetworkManager is 8.1.4.git20100817.
Anyway know what causes this or suggestions on how to deal with it ?I am in the same boat and it is darn annoying. I'm thinking that I may have to go to a routed wireless net instead of bridged so that I can differentiate between the two links at the routing level and add a bit of routing cost to the wireless link.
-wolfgang
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only)
There are lot's of things that don't work in NM-APPLET, I can't create a vpnc connection, nor can I get my wireless card to stay in managed mode from reboot to reboot. I have to physically turn off the wireless card on my D630 to keep from attaching to co-workers web enabled phones ad-hoc at the office.
On 08/30/2010 07:01 AM, Genes MailLists wrote:
Often when I do backups on laptop, I'll plug in wired ethernet - NM happily switches the connection from wireless to wired -
however it always leaves the wireless on as well + correct if its a different subnet than wired + arguably wrong if its the same subnet - probably a bug ? - or at least it should offer to shutoff wireless when the 2 subnets are the same.
Since the route via wireless is active, the backup could/does usewireless instead of wired. So I usually right click the nm applet and disable wireless.
Today - that option along with the disable netowrking option aregrayed out and I can not uncheck the 'emable wireless/networking radio buttons.
This is f13 - fully updated (+ some testing and 2.6.32.6-47 kernelfrom koji). NetworkManager is 8.1.4.git20100817.
Anyway know what causes this or suggestions on how to deal with it ? Thanks ..gene/
I clicked on EDIT CONNECTIONS. nm-applet asked for the root password. Now, all the formerly grayed out boxes are enabled. Whatever is going on seems to be in the applet.
Followup - after switching to wired being on wired for a while - the radio buttons are no longer grayed out ... it now seems normal.
This may be useful for the bug.