I'm trying to set up a laptop with both wired and wireless interfaces.
Apart from difficulties in getting the wireless to work I'm a bit
surprised by the way even the wired setup works. If I boot up the laptop
when the wired ethernet is disconnected it spends quite a long time
looking for a DHCP server! Surely this can't be correct behaviour?


I'd expect default bootup behaviour to be
IF wired ethernet link == up
THEN try DHCP
ELSE try wireless ...

Am I missing something?


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On 1/3/08, John Stumbles <john.stumbles@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a laptop with both wired and wireless interfaces.
> Apart from difficulties in getting the wireless to work I'm a bit
> surprised by the way even the wired setup works. If I boot up the laptop
> when the wired ethernet is disconnected it spends quite a long time
> looking for a DHCP server! Surely this can't be correct behaviour?
>

Set both your interfaces to 'auto' and install network-manager.


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