vickey_20

I have a ethernet card ( eth0) and wlan on my laptop. I normally connect to Internet using wlan. Now I have connected my old pc to my laptop using a lan wire. When I try to ping it , it seems that my laptop tries to find the old pc on my wlan ntw. How can I ping my old pc using eth0??

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Rubberman

The easiest way is to disable the wireless when you are connected to the wired network. FWIW, my Dell laptop has a bios setting that tells it to disable wireless when it detects a live ethernet connection on bootup. Works great. I only have to disable the wireless network if I connect it to the wired network while it is already booted up.

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vickey_20

but the problem is that wlan gives me Internet connection and at the same time I want to be connected to the lan also.

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waterhead

I think that to have two NIC's working at the same time, they have to be on different sub-nets. You also need to manually configure this, as the NetworkManager program doesn't seem to allow this.

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vickey_20

how to do that

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Rubberman

Ah! Different problem. Are these ports connected to different networks or subnets?

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