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December 19th, 2005, 09:59 PM
gtkwifi v1.09 Breaks LAN "default route" in the following situation.
This has been tested and occurs even after several re-installs.
I have Both LAN or WAN connection available to my laptop.
The WAN access is of course through gtkwifi.
To cause the problem I proceed as follows:
1. install gtkwifi, add it to Panel as "Wireless Connection Manager", but do NOT connect to WAN yet.
2. Connect via LAN and no connection problems, reboot and test more, continues to work great.
3. reboot with LAN unpluged, then Connect to WAN with gtkwifi (note: I do NOT set any preferred networks or anything else). Works as expected.
4. reboot with LAN pluged in. I do NOT connect gtkwifi. LAN works for a minute or so then suddenly stops working. I can ping my local net but nothing else on the internet. My "default route" is now broken. I check the "route" command and I see that both eth0 and wlan0 are listed, wlan0 is above eth0 so perhaps that is why it diverts the default route to nowhere since wlan0 is not currently in use.
Here is a printout of the "route" command:
$ route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 wlan0
default 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 wlan0
default 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
5. Now, the only way to fix the LAN is by Removing gtkwifi from the Panel and rebooting. If I try to Add it back to the Panel again any time in the future it breaks the default route within a minute or two after adding it to the Panel.
If there is a work-around for this problem?
I posted the bug on their project site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gtkwifi/
Thanks, -pc
This has been tested and occurs even after several re-installs.
I have Both LAN or WAN connection available to my laptop.
The WAN access is of course through gtkwifi.
To cause the problem I proceed as follows:
1. install gtkwifi, add it to Panel as "Wireless Connection Manager", but do NOT connect to WAN yet.
2. Connect via LAN and no connection problems, reboot and test more, continues to work great.
3. reboot with LAN unpluged, then Connect to WAN with gtkwifi (note: I do NOT set any preferred networks or anything else). Works as expected.
4. reboot with LAN pluged in. I do NOT connect gtkwifi. LAN works for a minute or so then suddenly stops working. I can ping my local net but nothing else on the internet. My "default route" is now broken. I check the "route" command and I see that both eth0 and wlan0 are listed, wlan0 is above eth0 so perhaps that is why it diverts the default route to nowhere since wlan0 is not currently in use.
Here is a printout of the "route" command:
$ route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 wlan0
default 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 wlan0
default 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
5. Now, the only way to fix the LAN is by Removing gtkwifi from the Panel and rebooting. If I try to Add it back to the Panel again any time in the future it breaks the default route within a minute or two after adding it to the Panel.
If there is a work-around for this problem?
I posted the bug on their project site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gtkwifi/
Thanks, -pc