Re: autoconnect to wired if link is up

[Nikolaus Filus <nfilus gmx net>]

Stefan Kost wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I am on ubuntu feisty and use network manager as I roam around with my  
> laptop. On my desk I have a wired connection (static ip), elsewhere  
> wifi. Now my problem is that whenever I boot the machine it connects  
> to wifi. I checked with ethtool that the link status is readable and  
> it works. Any ideas how I can make NM use the wired connection by  
> default?

short answer: doesn't work

long answer: feisty's nm is modified to allow static ip by the system
configuration files and is not officialy supported by upstream. Either you let
NM manage both or none interfaces. Your use case is expected to be possible in
the coming 0.7 version.


Nikolaus