Wifi adapter + LAN in tandem

[mk01]

@resinis,

if you please specify more in detail what is in your terms "gets online". is it obtaining ip address and setting default route or ?

i have the feeling the whole problem will be in the fact that XBian config is switching "auto" flag on adapters. so it comes with "auto eth0". as soon as you configures wifi, eth0 is removed from "auto" (the problem is that the network utils would try to configure eth0 even if link is down for 30s). so XBian is setting as auto last adapter configured.

for you it means just manually edit /etc/network/interfaces, put again "auto eth0" into the file, configure it as static without gw. just IP and mask.

also priorities are possible, both could have default gw and even be on the same subnet. just put metric #nr to the adapters (lower metrics is priority).

another option would be to setup eth0 as hotplug (as wlan0 is) and set hotplugd to watch it for "link up" (then will be configured).