I have never liked Internet Explorer. Unfortunately, the company I work for develop web applications with IE being the target browser. So when IE screws up, I can’t do my job properly.
And guess what! IE screwed up. If I opened IE and entered a URL, it would either completely freeze, or close its own window, depending on how strong the wind was blowing. After significant faffing however, I found the solution. For the record, I’m running Windows 7 Professional x64.
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I had a little bit of trouble with this recently, and thought I’d might as well post the solution. I have two computers, both using a wireless connection. One runs Linux Mint, the other runs Windows Vista. I wanted to use Synergy on both machines so that I only had to use one mouse and one keyboard. I got that working easily enough, but over wireless it was a bit choppy, sometimes a little unresponsive.
“I know what to do,” I said. “I’ll fix it with a good ol’ crossover cable” (I didn’t really, I just used a regular cable, network cards are smarter than they used to be). As simple as that it was not! Mint wanted to use the wired connection for all traffic. When I had the cable plugged in, I could not access the internet. Sure, I could have shared the network through Windows, but I wanted a more elegant solution… Here is what I did to get it all working.
- Give the wired network adapters manual IP addresses in a different subnet to the wireless connection – in my case, the wireless connection was a class C subnet (see this Wikipedia article for more information on subnets), so I opted for a class B subnet for the wired interface. Looking at the Wikipedia article, that would give them a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0. I gave the interfaces IPs of 128.0.0.1 and 128.0.0.2. Default gateways and DNS servers do not matter here.
- This is the bit I had trouble with. In the Mint Connection Manager, select the wired connection and go to IPv4 Settings, and click the Routes button.
- Add an entry and enter the address that the wireless adapter has, and use the router address as the Gateway
Sorted! Mint will now use the wired connection for Synergy, and wireless for internet/network stuff.
