Ethernet connectivity

[davesteele]

Ethernet connectivity

[augisbud]

everything seems to be fine, I'm wondering, how can we disable the hotspot if there is internet from eth0

[Kegmaster]

I second this. It would be nice to have the option to disable the hotspot if Internet/Ethernet connectivity was established.

[davesteele]

If you downloaded the Comitup disk image, Ethernet is configured as 10.0.0.2/24. I tried adding a DHCP alias, but it didn't work.

[augisbud]

If i get it right, the interfaces that are not defined in /etc/network/interfaces are managed by python-networkmanager?

[davesteele]

Yes, which is in turn being called by Comitup.

[augisbud]

How do you tell network manager to connect to wifi, create a hotspot etc, use dhcp for wlan ip

[augisbud]

nmcli device status DEVICE TYPE STATE CONNECTION wlan0 wifi connected 11111 eth0 ethernet disconnected -- lo loopback unmanaged --
ok, so this is what I get when I plug in an ethernet cable

[augisbud]

changing /etc/network/interfaces to

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

enables ethernet, however the wifi ap doesn't start or it doesn't connect to the last known network when ethernet was disconnected

wifi doesnt appear even after a reboot

[davesteele]

The change you made to interfaces should have no ill effect on Comitup (unless you have a wlan* entry), though I don't see input there to have it handle Ethernet.

There is a comitup.log file in /var/log. Check that. Also, you can shut down the service ("systemctl stop comitup") and then run "comitup" from the command line to see stdout output.

[davesteele]

That's not something that would be on my short list.

You might be able to address the underlying issue by adding a password to the hotspot (supported in the next release). Otherwise, you would need a process that detected the Ethernet connection, terminated Comitup, and terminated the hotspot NetworkManager connection.

[davesteele]

I'll consider patches.

[davesteele]

Ethernet configuration is updated. See the home page.