Wired and Wireless with a notebook

[Jared Anderson]

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