I have a script that runs mii-tool and greps for a 'Link OK' and if it doesn't
find it, then it activates my wireless...
Try something like that.
On Thursday 20 April 2006 01:20, Dazed_75 wrote:
> On 4/19/06, Jared Anderson <pluggedIn@thegoldenedge.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 18 April 2006 5:12 pm, Dazed_75 wrote:
> > > My laptop (Toshiba 5105-S701) has both wired ethernet and built-in
> > > 802-11b. At home I normally plug in the wired ethernet. The Wireless
> > > is used when I have the laptop away from the computer room (wheter
> > > home or away). The issue seems to be that when I bring up the system
> > > (Ubuntu 5.10) with the ether cable plugged in it finds both
> > > interfaces, leaves both enabled and refuses to resolve URLs until I
> > > use [menu] System/Administration/Networking to de-activate the
> > > wireless.
> > >
> > > Note that both wireless and wired interfaces are being issued separate
> > > IPs (e.g. 192.168.1.106 and 107) by the same Linksys router (which
> > > also contains the AP) and should be issuing the same DNS IPs from my
> > > ISP (/etc/resolv.conf only contains the usual pair). One would think
> > > the system could use EITHER interface succussfully. Something is
> > > getting in the way and I would love to learn how to avoid this issue.
> > > BTW, this issue is not unique to me. I have talked to several people
> > > with the same problem including at least one other PLUG member.
> > >
> > > Suggestions or references anyone?
> >
> > While at home, before disabling one of the interfaces, can you run of the
> > following commands and then post the results?
> >
> > netstat -rn
> > -or-
> > route -vn
> > -or-
> > cat /proc/net/route
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> Interestingly, my netstat (Ubuntu 5.10) does not seem to have a -m
> option. Also, I realize you said "OR" but too much is better than not
> enough and since they produced slightly different output, Here is all
> of it:
>
> $ netstat -i
> Kernel Interface table
> Iface MTU Met RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR
> Flg eth0 1500 0 113 0 0 0 78 0 0
> 0 BMRU eth1 1500 0 36 0 0 0 5 0 0
> 0 BMRU lo 16436 0 15546 0 0 0 15546 0
> 0 0 LRU $ netstat -r
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt
> Iface 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0
> 0 eth0 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0
> 0 eth1 default myrouter 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0
> 0 eth1 default myrouter 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0
> 0 eth0 $ route -vn
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
> Iface 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0
> 0 eth0 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0
> 0 eth1 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0
> 0 eth1 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0
> 0 eth0 $ cat /proc/net/route
> Iface Destination Gateway
> Flags RefCnt Use Metric Mask MTU Window IRTT
> eth0 0001A8C0 00000000 0001 0 0 0 00FFFFFF 0 0 0
> eth1 0001A8C0 00000000 0001 0 0 0 00FFFFFF 0 0 0
> eth1 00000000 0101A8C0 0003 0 0 0 00000000 0 0 0
> eth0 00000000 0101A8C0 0003 0 0 0 00000000 0 0 0
> $ cat /etc/resolv.conf
> search ph.cox.net
> nameserver 204.127.203.135
> nameserver 216.148.225.135
>
> NOTE: the "search ph.cox.net" is from when I use the laptop at a
> different location.
>
> Just to reconfirm, this is following a powerup with the ethernet cable
> plugged an and the wireless turned on. At that point I was unable to
> access the internet (ping yahoo.com even failed). Interestingly after
> capturing this info, moving to this desktop to do the email, I went
> back to the laptop to try pinging the DNS server by IP address and
> found that worked and learned the traffic went over the wireless. I
> then tried pinging Yahoo.com again and it worked (also via the
> wireless). This is getting even wierder.
>
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