Bug 1051178

Summary:	networkmanager does not prefer ethernet connection over wireless
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	cornel panceac <cpanceac>
Component:	NetworkManager	Assignee:	Dan Williams <dcbw>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	20	CC:	cra, dcbw, freddy
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Description cornel panceac 2014-01-09 19:47:02 UTC

Description of problem:
if you connect an ethernet cable to an wireless connected computer, connection does not switch to ethernet but remains on wireless.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

$ rpm -q NetworkManager
NetworkManager-0.9.9.0-22.git20131003.fc20.i686


How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.connect notebook to wireless
2.connect ethernet cable to notebook
3.

Actual results:
notebook keeps wireless connection


Expected results:
notebook switches to wired connection


Additional info:
looking in settings, wired connection is off.

Comment 1 Freddy Willemsen 2014-01-10 07:29:24 UTC

I am seeing this behaviour as well. I have the BIOS (Dell Latitude E6530) setup so the wireless *should* be disabled whenever a wired connection is detected and this worked flawlessly until I upgraded to Fedora20. Now, whenever I reboot, both connections are active. For some reason, this results in a non-usable network (connections stay up, but no traffic goes through) whenever I have an openvpn connection open for a few minutes. When I disable the wireless network (via NetworkManager gui) at that moment, everything returns to normal.

I looked at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723930 as well, but using the "Connect automatically" workaround is hardly a solution.

I would normally see if ifplugd could be of use here, but that seems to have been retired for Fedora20?

Comment 2 Freddy Willemsen 2014-02-06 07:46:38 UTC

After several updates of NetworkManager things started to improve a lot. I noticed that upon a fresh boot both wired and wireless were active. However, whenever the network cable was reseated the wireless would deactivate as expected. Finally, after a Bios Update last night it all seems fine now even when freshly booted.

So at the moment I would say things work as expected.

Comment 3 Charles R. Anderson 2014-04-15 13:36:32 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1050546 ***