My laptop has both on-board wired Ethernet and 802.11a/b wireless. Both of these work fine; I'm using them with ifplugd and it behaves mostly as I expect. But the thing is, I recently took the CVS version of the madwifi Atheros 802.11 driver, and so now ifplugd actually tries to start the wireless...
Is there a good tool for setting up the networking "properly"? In particular, I'd like the system to: (1) Prefer the wired Ethernet if it's available, and not put a default route via ath0 [wireless] if there's already a default route via eth0 [wired]. (2) If the wireless finds essid "A", run 'ifup ath0=net-foo' instead of just 'ifup ath0'. If it finds essid "B", use it, but don't do anything special bringing up the network. In any case, don't switch ssids once the network is up. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell