how smart will wireless be in FC5?

[Charlie McVeigh]

On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 09:15 -0400, Jack Howarth wrote:
>    Does anyone know if the following will be possible in FC5? I
> am interested in being able to set up a portable Linux box such
> that if the ethernet interface is available the internet access
> will be used through eth0 otherwise the wireless interface will be used.
> Currently in Fedora Core 4, it seems that I am stuck with either
> automatically enabling both interfaces at startup or manually
> starting one or the other. What I am trying to avoid is having
> both interfaces in use if the ethernet interface comes up at startup.
> Thanks in advance for any information.
>        Jack
> 


A good read on how to use NetworkManager can be found in the January
2005 edition of Red Hat Magazine.  Find it here:

http://www.redhat.com/magazine/003jan05/features/networkmanager/

Works great on my T42 Thinkpad.

Charlie