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Re: ethernet and wifi together



On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 03:32:08PM +0100, S3v3ran . wrote:
> Hello
> 
> My scenario is the following. I'm connected to the wired network, which is
> the default network i'm using. The default gateway, DNS server and
> everything else is via this interface. On the other side i have some
> virtual machines inside and i need them to use the bridged wifi connection
> (because the wired one is behind a proxy server). For this i also need to
> have connected the wireless network (using WPA2-PSK). When i use Wicd. When
> i use Wicd to connect to wifi, it automatically disconnects me from
> ethernet and when i connect to ethernet, it disconnects me from wifi. Both
> connections (wifi and wired) should be configured dynamically (i'm using
> various networks at home or in the company). I tried a network-manager but
> I couldn't connect to wifi with it. Is there a way how to connect
> dynamically to both interfaces, using the eth0 as default route? Thanks in
> advance.
> 
I'm not sure if this will work, but you could remove the "wired
interface" device in wicd's preferences, then use
/etc/network/interfaces to configure the wired interface like this:

allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

-Rob

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