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I can't use wired and wireless connection at the same time

Asked by ibrahim.k

 have installed ubuntu 9.10 on my hp-dv6 1045 laptop.

Been using windows.
I can't use wired and wireless connection at the same time.
When I am using wireless after i plug the ethernet cable i lose the wireless connection

I can't have both of them working at the same time

At work I use wireless to browse internet but i need the wired connection for the local network

wireless dhcp
wired manual static ip configuration

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wojox (wojox) said : 		#1

You can't use two connections at the same time ibrahim.k regardless of what OS your using. It's one or the other.

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ibrahim.k (bero-hacker) said : 		#2

Dear wojox I did this on Windows vista home premium and windows 7

But let me tell you that ethernet cable doesnt have internet connection it is only connected to the server and our server is not connected to the internet as well.

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wojox (wojox) said : 		#3

Okay try to see if you can configure both interfaces in /etc/network/interfaces, your configuration would then look something like this

auto lo eth0 wlan0
iface lo inet loopback

iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.2.9
netmask 255.255.255.0

iface wlan0 inet dhcp

this would bypass the network manager

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ibrahim.k (bero-hacker) said : 		#4

Everything is still the same it didn't work
on ubuntuforums.org told me that editing this file is not useful on versions higher that 8.10 I guess

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wojox (wojox) said : 		#5

Sorry about that ibrahim.k. I never knew that was possible. I googled around and found a few threads on your subject with Windows Vista/7. I run a laptop, desktop, and server so I'll play around with my laptop and see what I can do.

What did the ubuntuforums have to say? Any luck over there?

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ibrahim.k (bero-hacker) said : 		#6

No I couldn't solve the problem on ubuntuforums still suffering from the same problem
and thank you very much in advance

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Iowan (iowan) said : 		#7

/etc/network/interfaces still works on this 9.04 machine.
Does ifconfig -a show an address for either/both?

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