[Discuss] networking

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 01/09/2012 01:59 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 01:53:22PM -0500, dan moylan wrote:
>> running ubuntu 11.10 on asus eee pc 1005ha
>> wlan0 is the internal wirelass device,
>> wlan1 is a usb plug-in wireless adaptor.
>>
>> wlan0 is intermittent -- that's why i need wlan1.  my
>> problem is that when they are both up, the browser gets
>> confused and semi hangs.  when i shut down wlan0 using
>> ifconfig wlan0 down, all is well, but the clever system
>> shortly starts up wlan0 again.  /etc/network/interfaces has
>> only wlan1 listed, but that file has obviously been
>> superceeded.
>>
>> where do i go to ensure that wlan0 stays down.
> Put wlan0 in /etc/network/interfaces like this:
>
> auto wlan0
> iface wlan0 inet manual
>
> and run /etc/init.d/networking restart
>
> Other subsystems should relinquish control, and wlan0 should
> not gain an IP.
Also make sure that if there is an ONBOOT set it to none. I'm looking at
a Fedora installation, but most have a way to turn the interface on at
boot time, and you want to turn that off.

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