[Novices] wireless problem fedora 4

[greenproc]

Eric Beversluis wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 09:02 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> 
>>>>'ifconfig' shows an eth1 with the MAC address of my wireless and an IP
>>>>address. Is it possible that something is making the computer "think"
>>>>that it's a cable connection and that's why it can't make the wireless
>>>>connection?
>>>
>>>OK. Well I went in and shut down both eth0 (cable) and eth1 (wireless),
>>>made sure that the cable for eth0 was disconnected and then ran 'ifup
>>>eth0'. This finally worked. 
>>
>>Right, you can't have two interfaces on the same subnet,  the kernel
>>won't know how to route things.
>>
>>
>>>Also when I restarted without the ethernet
>>>cable I was able to activate eth1 wireless. So at least now I'm in. I'll
>>>probably experiment some to see what the "rules of engagement" are
>>>between the two eth's and if I just can't try to have both up at once.
> 
> 
> Also apropos Bridleman's query: At the time I needed the cable
> connection to look at the router and see if it was recognizing the
> wireless. And there are times when, for example, I want to unplug the
> cable, go upstairs, and get online with wireless. Will I have to go in
> and manually turn off eth0 each time I do this?

I'm not 100% sure abbout this, but I'm thinking of two potential
solutions.  The first would be to install some Desktop Applet that
allows for network switching.

The second would be to change the metric of the routes so that eth0 is
preffered, and eth1 would be used if eth0 is unreachable?



> 
> EB
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