[PLUG] wireless takes over in Ubuntu Gutsy

Rogan Creswick creswick at gmail.com
Fri Apr 18 20:41:32 UTC 2008


On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Joe Shisei Niski
<joeniski at easystreet.net> wrote:
>
>  Any suggestions on either preventing this, or disabling the wireless
>  adapter except when i need it?

If the networks it's picking up are not conflicting (that is, as long
as they use different IP spaces, like 192.168.1.x and 192.168.0.x)
then you could almost certainly solve this problem by specifying a
route (with 'route').

I'm afraid I can't really help with the specifics though, maybe:

# assuming your wired 'net is on eth0:
$ route add default dev eth0

# see if that did something:
$ netstat -rn

that *may* break things horribly, but a reboot should set it all back
to normal... The netstat -rn command alone may be enough to clarify
what's going on, and make a solution more obvious.  (You'll probably
want to run that before and after any route tweaking you do.)

--Rogan



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