2009/2/6 Tim <xendis...@inbox.com>: > > I have a strange wireless problem which I hope somebody can help me with. I am > running Mepis 8 RC2 (which is based on Debian Lenny). I am using an Acer > laptop which has the Intel 2200BG wireless interface which is seen as eth0 > and a Broadcom Nextreme ethernet interface which is seen as eth1. > > Since installing mepis on this laptop the wireless has worked perfectly out of > the box but of late it has developed a problem. > > If you let the screen saver run (I am running KDE 3.5.10) when you hit the > mouse or keyboard to bring the laptop out of the screen saver mode, you find > that the wireless network has stopped working (try pinging yahoo.com, > nothing). Now if I ifdown eth1 (the wired interface) the wireless will > suddenly come back to life. So it seems as though something is sending the > wireless to sleep when the screen saver kicks in which then allows eth1 to > become the dominant interface and when the screen saver stops won't allow > eth0 back on the the network. > > What I would like is an option where I can turn eth1 off until I plug a cable > into it, I know I could blacklist the eth1 driver (which is t3) and then > modprobe it back in when I wanted to use the wired interface, any thoughts??? > > Tim
You could use wicd which auto detects wired interfaces, or there is an option 'allow-hotplug' in /etc/network/interfaces which I've seen described on this list but not used myself. http://www.annodex.net/cgi-bin/man/man2html?interfaces HTH, Peter -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
