Network Manager questions

[Dan Williams]

On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 09:04 -0400, Ricardo Veguilla wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 05:00 -0700, Bikehead wrote:
> > I started playing with the most recent NetworkManager (0.2-4) and I must 
> > say it is very nice.  I've set up NetworkManger to start as a server, 
> > disabled the ONBOOT flag on my ethernet and wireless interfaces, start 
> > NetworkManagerInfo when my session starts, and added two network 
> > monitoring applets to my panel.
> > 
> > I unplug the cable and the warning sign goes up and the interface is 
> > taken down.  I plug it in and the warning sign disappears and the 
> > interface is up again.
> > 
> > So how can I have the wireless interface go down when the wired one 
> > comes up?  My concern is that the wired interface is 50 times faster 
> > then the wireless so if it is connected I want traffic routed over the 
> > faster interface.  However, if I unplug I want the wireless interface to 
> > take over:  automatic switch over.  Is there a way to configure the 
> > NetworkManager to do this?

Quite correct, this is what should be happening already.  A few things
to check...

1) What kind of card is your ethernet card? (output of 'lspci' would
help here)
2) Have you clicked any entry in the panel applet? (When you manually
choose an entry, NetworkManager will currently stick with that card no
matter what, ie if you select the wired network it won't switch to
wireless automatically.  If you leave NM completely alone, you'll get
completely automatic behavior.  Whether this is correct behavior or not
is debatable)
3) Does HAL see both your wired and wireless cards?  (run hal-device-
manager from the hal-gnome package and look for your cards)

Thanks!
Dan