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I recently had to rebuild my pc and decided to go for ubuntu 14.04. I think the mistake I made was I started from a 12.04 install disk instead of the 12.10 disk I'd used previously and when given the option set my primary connection as ethernet (because the wireless option didn't work).



After upgrading to 14.04 etc, I managed to get the wireless working, or more using steps like ifconfig -a and the likes I managed to prove that the wireless card etc. is all installed and working.



However every time I boot without a hard wired connection plugged in I get the message "waiting for network configuration".



I can then once it's booted without a network get my wirless working using




sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
iwlist wlan0 scan




This seems to kick the wireless module into life and it appears in the GUI and I can then select a network, however all the options like edit network and disconnect etc are all greyed out.



What I would like of course is if the WLAN0 was just set as my primary default network so I've been looking for a solution to this and it would seem that I need to adjust the old /etc/network/interfaces file but when I try to do so using the




sudo vi /etc/network/interfaces




command I, well I simply have no idea what I'm doing. Other than that typing :q! gets me out of there before I do to much damage!



As far as I can tell (by navigating to the file in the GUI) the output of my /etc/network/interfaces is as follows:
(obviously not including the " in each line that's just to break the heading rule of the #)




"# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
"# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).



"# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback



"# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp




If this is the case then this clearly doesn't contain what it should do but I don't how to fix it. Nor do I even know if I'm on the right track.



Any help would be appreciated thanks :)










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    I recently had to rebuild my pc and decided to go for ubuntu 14.04. I think the mistake I made was I started from a 12.04 install disk instead of the 12.10 disk I'd used previously and when given the option set my primary connection as ethernet (because the wireless option didn't work).



    After upgrading to 14.04 etc, I managed to get the wireless working, or more using steps like ifconfig -a and the likes I managed to prove that the wireless card etc. is all installed and working.



    However every time I boot without a hard wired connection plugged in I get the message "waiting for network configuration".



    I can then once it's booted without a network get my wirless working using




    sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
    iwlist wlan0 scan




    This seems to kick the wireless module into life and it appears in the GUI and I can then select a network, however all the options like edit network and disconnect etc are all greyed out.



    What I would like of course is if the WLAN0 was just set as my primary default network so I've been looking for a solution to this and it would seem that I need to adjust the old /etc/network/interfaces file but when I try to do so using the




    sudo vi /etc/network/interfaces




    command I, well I simply have no idea what I'm doing. Other than that typing :q! gets me out of there before I do to much damage!



    As far as I can tell (by navigating to the file in the GUI) the output of my /etc/network/interfaces is as follows:
    (obviously not including the " in each line that's just to break the heading rule of the #)




    "# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
    "# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).



    "# The loopback network interface
    auto lo
    iface lo inet loopback



    "# The primary network interface
    auto eth0
    iface eth0 inet dhcp




    If this is the case then this clearly doesn't contain what it should do but I don't how to fix it. Nor do I even know if I'm on the right track.



    Any help would be appreciated thanks :)










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      I recently had to rebuild my pc and decided to go for ubuntu 14.04. I think the mistake I made was I started from a 12.04 install disk instead of the 12.10 disk I'd used previously and when given the option set my primary connection as ethernet (because the wireless option didn't work).



      After upgrading to 14.04 etc, I managed to get the wireless working, or more using steps like ifconfig -a and the likes I managed to prove that the wireless card etc. is all installed and working.



      However every time I boot without a hard wired connection plugged in I get the message "waiting for network configuration".



      I can then once it's booted without a network get my wirless working using




      sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
      iwlist wlan0 scan




      This seems to kick the wireless module into life and it appears in the GUI and I can then select a network, however all the options like edit network and disconnect etc are all greyed out.



      What I would like of course is if the WLAN0 was just set as my primary default network so I've been looking for a solution to this and it would seem that I need to adjust the old /etc/network/interfaces file but when I try to do so using the




      sudo vi /etc/network/interfaces




      command I, well I simply have no idea what I'm doing. Other than that typing :q! gets me out of there before I do to much damage!



      As far as I can tell (by navigating to the file in the GUI) the output of my /etc/network/interfaces is as follows:
      (obviously not including the " in each line that's just to break the heading rule of the #)




      "# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
      "# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).



      "# The loopback network interface
      auto lo
      iface lo inet loopback



      "# The primary network interface
      auto eth0
      iface eth0 inet dhcp




      If this is the case then this clearly doesn't contain what it should do but I don't how to fix it. Nor do I even know if I'm on the right track.



      Any help would be appreciated thanks :)










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      I recently had to rebuild my pc and decided to go for ubuntu 14.04. I think the mistake I made was I started from a 12.04 install disk instead of the 12.10 disk I'd used previously and when given the option set my primary connection as ethernet (because the wireless option didn't work).



      After upgrading to 14.04 etc, I managed to get the wireless working, or more using steps like ifconfig -a and the likes I managed to prove that the wireless card etc. is all installed and working.



      However every time I boot without a hard wired connection plugged in I get the message "waiting for network configuration".



      I can then once it's booted without a network get my wirless working using




      sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
      iwlist wlan0 scan




      This seems to kick the wireless module into life and it appears in the GUI and I can then select a network, however all the options like edit network and disconnect etc are all greyed out.



      What I would like of course is if the WLAN0 was just set as my primary default network so I've been looking for a solution to this and it would seem that I need to adjust the old /etc/network/interfaces file but when I try to do so using the




      sudo vi /etc/network/interfaces




      command I, well I simply have no idea what I'm doing. Other than that typing :q! gets me out of there before I do to much damage!



      As far as I can tell (by navigating to the file in the GUI) the output of my /etc/network/interfaces is as follows:
      (obviously not including the " in each line that's just to break the heading rule of the #)




      "# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
      "# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).



      "# The loopback network interface
      auto lo
      iface lo inet loopback



      "# The primary network interface
      auto eth0
      iface eth0 inet dhcp




      If this is the case then this clearly doesn't contain what it should do but I don't how to fix it. Nor do I even know if I'm on the right track.



      Any help would be appreciated thanks :)







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          Open your terminal and type as



          sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces


          Assume that your Ethernet interface ID is eth0 .



          Then ad this line to that file



          iface eth0 inet manual



          Then restart your Network-Manager with



          sudo service network-manager restart or restart your PC and check.



          Hope that helps.






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          • This seemed to work, as in when I did the network-manager restart the wireless didn't completely disappear as it had previously but upon restarting the pc it still booted up with the "waiting on network configuration" and I had to go through the process of manually booting the wireless again. Thanks though.

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            Jun 11 '14 at 13:11



















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          What I do is remove the default and make a new default. Windows is much harder to manage, and both use metrics (by increasing the cost to "your" least likely choice) to handle "routing conflicts" when the same destination can be from either device. The smaller the number/cost of the connection will win -- but if you have two interface routes it can be quite bad if your tunnel dies and then your traffic becomes public again.




          1. you can simply type route to see your current routing table

          2. route del default eth0

          3. route add default wlan0


          I usually do this when I create tunnels, so I am usually deleting wlan0 and adding ppp0. If I leave it alone, I still have the same ISP IP address; So, I need to change my default to the tunnel.






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            Open your terminal and type as



            sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces


            Assume that your Ethernet interface ID is eth0 .



            Then ad this line to that file



            iface eth0 inet manual



            Then restart your Network-Manager with



            sudo service network-manager restart or restart your PC and check.



            Hope that helps.






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            • This seemed to work, as in when I did the network-manager restart the wireless didn't completely disappear as it had previously but upon restarting the pc it still booted up with the "waiting on network configuration" and I had to go through the process of manually booting the wireless again. Thanks though.

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            Open your terminal and type as



            sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces


            Assume that your Ethernet interface ID is eth0 .



            Then ad this line to that file



            iface eth0 inet manual



            Then restart your Network-Manager with



            sudo service network-manager restart or restart your PC and check.



            Hope that helps.






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            • This seemed to work, as in when I did the network-manager restart the wireless didn't completely disappear as it had previously but upon restarting the pc it still booted up with the "waiting on network configuration" and I had to go through the process of manually booting the wireless again. Thanks though.

              – Sheed
              Jun 11 '14 at 13:11














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            Open your terminal and type as



            sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces


            Assume that your Ethernet interface ID is eth0 .



            Then ad this line to that file



            iface eth0 inet manual



            Then restart your Network-Manager with



            sudo service network-manager restart or restart your PC and check.



            Hope that helps.






            share|improve this answer













            Open your terminal and type as



            sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces


            Assume that your Ethernet interface ID is eth0 .



            Then ad this line to that file



            iface eth0 inet manual



            Then restart your Network-Manager with



            sudo service network-manager restart or restart your PC and check.



            Hope that helps.







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            • This seemed to work, as in when I did the network-manager restart the wireless didn't completely disappear as it had previously but upon restarting the pc it still booted up with the "waiting on network configuration" and I had to go through the process of manually booting the wireless again. Thanks though.

              – Sheed
              Jun 11 '14 at 13:11



















            • This seemed to work, as in when I did the network-manager restart the wireless didn't completely disappear as it had previously but upon restarting the pc it still booted up with the "waiting on network configuration" and I had to go through the process of manually booting the wireless again. Thanks though.

              – Sheed
              Jun 11 '14 at 13:11

















            This seemed to work, as in when I did the network-manager restart the wireless didn't completely disappear as it had previously but upon restarting the pc it still booted up with the "waiting on network configuration" and I had to go through the process of manually booting the wireless again. Thanks though.

            – Sheed
            Jun 11 '14 at 13:11





            This seemed to work, as in when I did the network-manager restart the wireless didn't completely disappear as it had previously but upon restarting the pc it still booted up with the "waiting on network configuration" and I had to go through the process of manually booting the wireless again. Thanks though.

            – Sheed
            Jun 11 '14 at 13:11













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            What I do is remove the default and make a new default. Windows is much harder to manage, and both use metrics (by increasing the cost to "your" least likely choice) to handle "routing conflicts" when the same destination can be from either device. The smaller the number/cost of the connection will win -- but if you have two interface routes it can be quite bad if your tunnel dies and then your traffic becomes public again.




            1. you can simply type route to see your current routing table

            2. route del default eth0

            3. route add default wlan0


            I usually do this when I create tunnels, so I am usually deleting wlan0 and adding ppp0. If I leave it alone, I still have the same ISP IP address; So, I need to change my default to the tunnel.






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              What I do is remove the default and make a new default. Windows is much harder to manage, and both use metrics (by increasing the cost to "your" least likely choice) to handle "routing conflicts" when the same destination can be from either device. The smaller the number/cost of the connection will win -- but if you have two interface routes it can be quite bad if your tunnel dies and then your traffic becomes public again.




              1. you can simply type route to see your current routing table

              2. route del default eth0

              3. route add default wlan0


              I usually do this when I create tunnels, so I am usually deleting wlan0 and adding ppp0. If I leave it alone, I still have the same ISP IP address; So, I need to change my default to the tunnel.






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                What I do is remove the default and make a new default. Windows is much harder to manage, and both use metrics (by increasing the cost to "your" least likely choice) to handle "routing conflicts" when the same destination can be from either device. The smaller the number/cost of the connection will win -- but if you have two interface routes it can be quite bad if your tunnel dies and then your traffic becomes public again.




                1. you can simply type route to see your current routing table

                2. route del default eth0

                3. route add default wlan0


                I usually do this when I create tunnels, so I am usually deleting wlan0 and adding ppp0. If I leave it alone, I still have the same ISP IP address; So, I need to change my default to the tunnel.






                share|improve this answer















                What I do is remove the default and make a new default. Windows is much harder to manage, and both use metrics (by increasing the cost to "your" least likely choice) to handle "routing conflicts" when the same destination can be from either device. The smaller the number/cost of the connection will win -- but if you have two interface routes it can be quite bad if your tunnel dies and then your traffic becomes public again.




                1. you can simply type route to see your current routing table

                2. route del default eth0

                3. route add default wlan0


                I usually do this when I create tunnels, so I am usually deleting wlan0 and adding ppp0. If I leave it alone, I still have the same ISP IP address; So, I need to change my default to the tunnel.







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