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Re: "Help: How to switch between wifi and wired networks."

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@jeang3nie, I will have a look, although my primary goal is to be able to easily switch between wired, several in-home wifis, and coffeehouse wifis, on my thinkpad.

🚀 stack [OP]

2023-10-13 · 11 months ago

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🦀 jeang3nie · 2023-10-13 at 19:29:

You should be able to move between different wireless networks using wpa_supplicant. Not sure how that would fit into the scheme I mentioned earlier, because the docs don't mention it specifically.

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Help: How to switch between wifi and wired networks. — My laptop is currently configured for a wired network (em0) and WIFI(wlan0). Relevant /etc/rc.conf: [preformatted] When the system comes up, networking seems to work. However, bringing wlan0 down makes the system stop working. I just spent a few hours trying to figure out what's going on, and I managed to get it working but it seems too convoluted. What's a good way to do this? The Problem When I bring down wlan0, netstat -r still shows (...

💬 stack · 4 comments · 2023-10-13 · 11 months ago