Re: managing networks on laptop
Richard Hector, 27.12.2013:
>
> Currently I'm using Network Manager on my laptop, which mostly works
> except when I want to ssh in from my desktop, and I'm not logged in on
> my laptop. Under those circumstances, the network isn't up.
>
> What I really want (I think) is for my laptop to connect to known
> networks, either by wired or wireless, when it finds them, but allow me
> to connect (probably with a gui) to other networks manually when they're
> available. I also need to be able to connect manually to an OpenVPN VPN
> from time to time.
>
> Additionally, where wired and wireless networks are both available, and
> are the same, I'd like them to get the same IP address. (Addresses, in
> fact - at some point I should get IPv6 running too ...) I've seen
> suggestions to use bonding to achieve this, but I'm not sure how that
> works when wired and wireless are not always the same network.
>
> Are there standard tools that will let me do these things?
>
> I think Network Manager might not handle it. Whereami might, but I think
> it's been unmaintained for a while now.
>
> Any tips appreciated :-)
In the Network Manager applet, if you go into the settings for a wireless
network, there's a check box at the bottom that says "usable by all users"
or something like that. If that's checked, I think I still have to log in once
to establish the wireless connection but the connection stays active after
I log out. (And if the wireless network has "connect automatically" checked,
I don't need to manually connect after I log in.) I think this is part of
the solution you're looking for.
If you want the laptop to connect without logging in at all, there's probably
a way but I don't know offhand. (I occasionally start networks without logging
into the gui, using nmcli, but that still requires me to use the console.)
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