I have an odd problem that I can fix but that comes back with every re-boot and is very annoying. You see when I boot up my computer my wireless card is ready and everything but I have to manually go into settings and make the default with every re-boot. Now the problems I had in windows were even worse but
this tops my linux problems. Please help! Also please simplify it because I am new to ubuntu.

Have you checked your /etc/network/interfaces file?
You can set the default interface there.

I can find it okay... but how do you change it?

You need a text editor to changethat file.

vi
mc
gedit

sudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces

Then make the changes needed.

I have the text editor but what do I change it too?

if you do 'cat /etc/network/interfaces' and post the output, someone can aid u.

torger@ubuntu:~$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
# 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

# This is a list of hotpluggable network interfaces.
# They will be activated automatically by the hotplug subsystem.
mapping hotplug
script grep
map eth1

# The primary network interface
iface eth1 inet dhcp
# wireless-* options are implemented by the wireless-tools package
wireless-mode managed
wireless-essid linksys

auto eth1


iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto eth0
torger@ubuntu:~$

Torger, what exactly is your workaround? What do you do after you reboot to make it work?

I fiddle around in network options and change it to the default connection but when I save the settings it takes 5 minutes to finish saving them.

You have 2 interfaces defined with dhcp in your interfaces file.
It looks like eth1 is your wireless card. (connected to a router?)
What is eth0 trying to connect to? Is it just a networkcard you don't
want to use at all?
If yes, try this (instead of using your network-config-tool):

ifdown eth0
ifdown eth1
ifup eth1

does that work?

If yes, and if you don't use eth0, remove these 2 lines from your interfaces file:
iface eth0 inet dhcp
auto eth0

What you say is correct but I can't change the write permmisions and i'm using the only account.

Can you give me something to use in the terminal? or a way to change write permmisions?

Ok I changed and saved and when I re-open the changes are there. But when I reboot it deletes the changes.

I had a similar problem with 5.04 & 5.10. I don't use the wired 10/100 ethernet, so I use the graphical net-config tool to uncheck the "Device is configured" box for all network interfaces that I do not want to use. I made my wireless NIC my default gateway (all this as a sudo'er, of course), and after that no more problems. Using the CLI is probably the most reliable method, but if it works, use it!

Dennis

Is this a diffrent net config tool because in the one I use when I unconfigure everything except the wireless they just get auto configured and come back.