internet connection

[Jerry Feldman]

On 04/03/2010 08:11 AM, j. daniel moylan wrote:
> i'm running ubuntu 9.10 on several pc's and often ssh into
> one from another.  however, if one does a "switch user", the
> internet connection goes down, dumping any user who had
> ssh'd into that pc.
>
> this didn't used to be the case, certainly not on ubuntu
> 8.10 (not sure about 9.04).  then you could just turn on the
> pc and the internet connection would be made whether or not
> anyone was logged in.
>
>  =20
Ubuntu 9.10 uses network manager as the default. Network Manager runs as
a GUI applet. I don't have Ubuntu installed any more, but if I recall,
there is a setting that you can adjust for it to come up at boot time.

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