Re: Keep a wlan active without Access Point?

[John Mahoney <jmahoney waav com>]

Yeah, I don't even want to know why you need to do this, but I have done more obscure stuff.  Network Manager does not assign an IP address to the interface until it becomes active, even if you think you have an address assigned statically.  You could write a script to assign the ip at boot with "ifconfig wlan0 192.168.0.100" assuming your interface is named wlan0(I've seen them named eth0 and ath0 also) One caveat is that if NM tries to connect but cannot and disconnects it will remove the ip address you manually assigned.

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John

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 1:29 AM, Ravindra Wankar <rwankar celoxis com> wrote:

Before I used Network Manager to manage my connections my wireless interface would be activated on boot. Without an access point I (obviously) could not connect to the net, but I could still ping my local machine with the static IP (192.168.0.100). With Network Manager managing my connection I cannot do this.

Does that make sense?
-- R

John Mahoney wrote:

Your email does not make much sense.  It may help if you explain what you are trying to accomplish.  The 127.0.0.1 always returns pings because its the loopback device.  If the wireless is not connected to an access point then I do not see why it would be in the routing tables.  If you want a useless device with an address look into creating a dummy device and assign it the address.

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John

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Ravindra Wankar <rwankar celoxis com> wrote:

I have a wireless connection with a static IP address 192.168.0.100. Everything works fine when I'm connected to an Access Point. Without the access point ping returns "connect : Network is unreachable". Using 127.0.0.1 works, but I'd rather have the static IP accessible. The routing table is empty. How do I setup Network Manager so the IP is available?

Thanks.
-- R
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