Comment 17 for bug 262152

Another issue in Jaunty is that there is an occasion where Jaunty will not
recognize a cross over cable.

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:07 PM, David S. <email address hidden> wrote:

> This bug is still present in Jaunty.
>
> --
> brings up both wired and wireless interfaces; hard to pick just one through
> the UI
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/262152
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> of a duplicate bug.
>
> Status in “network-manager” source package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: network-manager
>
> network-manager 0.7 seems to like to bring up both my wired and wireless
> interfaces at the same time when possible. (Neither is configured in
> /etc/network/interfaces.) Unfortunately, if you do that on my network then
> you get what might charitably be described as random routing. I spent quite
> a while yesterday trying to figure out why my uploads kept on failing
> part-way through.
>
> As far as I can see, the only way to stop it from doing this through the UI
> is to disable wireless altogether, which I don't want to do. Selecting the
> wired interface in the applet's left-click menu doesn't disable wireless
> (i.e. it now seems to be a multiselect widget in some respects).
> network-manager 0.6 used to roam quite smoothly between wired and wireless
> when I inserted or removed the Ethernet cable, which was ideal. Now plugging
> in the Ethernet cable leaves wireless still running. For the meantime I'm
> running 'sudo ifconfig eth1 down' when I don't need wireless and 'sudo
> ifconfig eth1 up' when I do, but of course this is far from optimal.
>