>> Somehow NM is convinced that it should try an Ethernet connection >> first. You need a way to disabuse it of that notion. > Not necessarily. My netbook (stretch with NM) normally uses wires, and > that is the priority. I occasionally use wifi at home, and usually when > out, and use sleep quite often. When I open the lid, and tap a key to > wake the display, the wifi strength signal is already there. [...] > I don't have an answer to the problem, but disabling Ethernet priority > with NM is not it.
Indeed, now that I think about it, when I have wired-ethernet connected, I think both the wired and the wifi connections are setup, so the priority is presumably doing something else. Stefan