Switching wifi to cable?
by Neljor from LinuxQuestions.org on (#54GFD)
Dear Linux friends,
To improve skype connections i would like to switch from wifi to cable in certain occasions.
Have setup wicked for this with yast. Network manager did not show an option for cable connection.
After reboot internet connection is still on wlan with cable plugged in, how can i switch?
$ip addr:
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: p5p1: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether 54:bf:64:11:75:54 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: wlan1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether b4:6b:fc:a7:77:5e brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.0.2/24 brd 192.168.0.255 scope global dynamic wlan1
valid_lft 85466sec preferred_lft 85466sec
inet6 fe80::af21:206c:5432:7710/64 scope link noprefixroute
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
OS Version: openSUSE Leap 15.1
Thank you so much in advance!
Peter


To improve skype connections i would like to switch from wifi to cable in certain occasions.
Have setup wicked for this with yast. Network manager did not show an option for cable connection.
After reboot internet connection is still on wlan with cable plugged in, how can i switch?
$ip addr:
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: p5p1: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether 54:bf:64:11:75:54 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: wlan1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether b4:6b:fc:a7:77:5e brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.0.2/24 brd 192.168.0.255 scope global dynamic wlan1
valid_lft 85466sec preferred_lft 85466sec
inet6 fe80::af21:206c:5432:7710/64 scope link noprefixroute
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
OS Version: openSUSE Leap 15.1
Thank you so much in advance!
Peter