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

[Jonny Lamb]

On Thu, Dec 04, 03:15:35 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 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.

That is no advantage. I don't want to have both networks connected
at the same time. If I unplug my wire then I don't care for the small
amount of downtime of connecting to a wireless network. Surely being
connected will cause some kind of battery drain too?

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

I do want NM to autoconnect to my wireless network, but only when
appropriate. The NM < 0.7 did this fine. Speaking to others proves that
I'm not the only one to think this is poor. As a result, I don't think
this bug is invalid at all and shouldn't be closed.

Thanks,

-- 
Jonny Lamb, UK
jonny at debian.org
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