[PLUG] Changing from Wireless to Wired Networking

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, Paul Heinlein wrote:

> The big question is whether or not NetworkManager is managing the
> network connections:
>
>   ps -ef | grep Network
>
> If it is, then there should be a little NetworkManager GUI applet that
> will control things. I've never used xubuntu, so I'm not sure where to
> tell you to look.
>
> If NetworkManager is NOT running the show, then the file you'll find
> most helpful is /etc/network/interfaces. Its format is described in
> the interfaces(5) man page. Assuming that your wired interface is
> eth0, you'll probably want a couple lines in that file:
>
>   allow-hotplug eth0
>   iface eth0 inet dhcp

Paul,

   Thank you very much. I'll work on this when I again have access to the
machine. We use static IP addresses here on the wired LAN and I'll change
the second line to reflect that.

Rich