Re: wired or not wired, that's the question
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 16:16, wimpunk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running debian testing on my laptop and I have a question about
> choosing a configuration.
> I use my laptop on wired and wireless environments. At this moment I
> switch manually but I want to get it done automaticly: if there's a
> wire plugged in (with signal) try to use it and if no signal, try to
> get wireless up. Has anyone a suggestion on how to do it?
>
> Tnx,
>
> wimpunk.
Use a combination of ifplugd and guessnet.
ifplugd will check to see if you are ethernet cable is plugged in or wlan is
up.
guessnet when appropriately configured via /etc/network/interfaces will choose
which network to associate with.
Be sure to read /usr/share/doc/{guessnet,ifplugd}/README.gz
John
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