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switch between wired and wifi

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• Started 10 years ago by jawor
• Latest reply from yves04
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   jawor
   

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   hello,
   i have question/problem:
   i managed to successfully install and configure my wifi, but now i have new problem - my wired connection wouldn't work :(

   is there any way to quickly switch between two interfaces? say, i would like to use wifi when i'm outside, but when i get home/work i would like to quickly switch to wired connection.

   Now, wifi is working, but when i connect cable slitaz is still using wifi :(

   PS. is there any way to change wifi interface name? (now it's named eth1, when i edit config file and change to wlan0, it goes back to eth1 after reboot)

   thanks for your help
   (sorry for my english :))

   Posted 10 years ago #
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   Ceel
   

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   Hi jawor,

   With SliTaz, you cannot have both wifi and wired connection.
   To come back to wired, open TazPanel > Network > wifi and modify manually the network.conf file; change
   WIFI="yes"
   to
   WIFI="no"
   Save and it should work.

   Posted 10 years ago #
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   jawor
   

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   i've figured it out seconds before your answer :)

   so there's no other way? (maybe some kind of automate or script)

   Posted 10 years ago #
4. 

   lricher
   

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   Yes you could accomplish this with very simple scripts.

   I am not an expert on the subject, but a quick and dirty solution would be 2 scripts or 1 script with a case switch / if statement.

   Simplest thing I can think of is

   wifiup
   #!/bin/sh
   sed -i.bak 's/WIFI="no"/WIFI="yes"/g' /etc/network.conf
   /etc/init.d/network.sh restart

   wifidown
   #!/bin/sh
   sed -i.bak 's/WIFI="yes"/WIFI="no"/g' /etc/network.conf
   /etc/init.d/network.sh restart

   place these in /usr/bin and chmod +x on both.

   now you can just type wifidown or wifiup and you are good to go.

   You could boil these down to a single command with on/off as options, if you prefer. This should be enough to get you started on that.

   Posted 10 years ago #
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   yves04
   

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   Another solution (which works for me with wpa_supplicant).
   From /etc/network.conf I've created two files
   /etc/wifi_off.conf (the same as network.conf with WIFI="off")
   /etc_wifi_on.conf with
   WIFI="yes"
   WIFI_INTERFACE="wlan0"
   WIFI_ESSID="dlink"
   WIFI_MODE="managed"
   WIFI_KEY="*********"
   WIFI_KEY_TYPE="WPA"
   WPA_DRIVER=""
   WIFI_CHANNEL=""
   WIFI_IWCONFIG_ARGS=""
   %0
   If you are using WPA, juste type
   #wpa_passphrase your_essid your_passphrase
   and copy the result of this command in /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
   Then created two files /usr/bin/wifi_on.sh and /usr/bin/wifi_off.sh :
   #!/bin/sh
   /etc/init.d/network.sh stop
   cp /etc/wifi_on.conf /etc/network.conf
   /etc/init.d/network.sh start
   and
   #!/bin/sh
   /etc/init.d/network.sh stop
   cp /etc/wifi_off.conf /etc/network.conf
   /etc/init.d/network.sh start

   After that #chmod a+x /usr/bin/wifi_on.sh ; the same for wifi_off.sh

   Eventually just type $wifi_on.sh (or $wifi_off.sh)

   Posted 10 years ago #

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