[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#507741: Wireless network is joined even when connected to wired

[Michael Biebl]

Jonny Lamb wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 04, 01:35:19 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Could you send us a log file?
>> grep NetworkManager /var/log/syslog
> 
> See attached. This is from enabling wired, and then enabling wireless.
> 

NM 0.7 supports multiple active devices.

What you see in the log, is that as soon as wlan0 is active, NM establishes a
connection over wlan0, the default route is still over eth0 (as this is the
wired connection, that is supposed to be faster and more reliable).
The advantage of this approach is, that given you unplug eth0, then NM will only
have to switch the route, which is much quicker than having to establish the
connection first.

Could you check the routing table, if eth0 is indeed the default.

If that is the case, then I'm going to close the bug, as this is expected
behaviour with 0.7.

If you don't want NM 0.7 to autoconnect to your wireless network, you can say so
in nm-connection-editor

Cheers,
Michael

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