On Wed 22 Jul 2020 at 22:51:00 (-0400), Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> Somehow NM is convinced that it should try an Ethernet connection > >> first. You need a way to disabuse it of that notion. > > Why doesn't it start with the last active connection? > I suspect that for 99% of the users this will be the most common case. > > Also, why does it wait 10s before it tries to connect to anything? > > >> What does your /etc/network/interfaces file look like? Is your Ethernet > >> device present there? If so, try commenting it out and restarting NM. > > Indeed I have a > > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > in there. But removing it doesn't seem to make any difference in this > respect (even after `systemctl restart NetworkManager`). > > > Also check the priorities of your WiFi and Ethernet connections. Mine > > are: Ethernet, -999; all WiFi, 0. > > I never touched those, but yes I now see that they are exactly like yours.
In view of the fact that I haven't seen an "eth0" string for quite a while, might it be worth checking your ethernet names? There might be a pause while something is searching for eth0 rather than, say, enp3s0. Cheers, David.
