On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 10:09:19 -0400, you wrote:

...

From: Michael W Cocke Organization: Dis Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 10:01:47 -0400 To: Subject: [SLE] Take 2: Dual NIC configuration in SuSE 10?

My thinkpad T22 has both a built-in NIC (Intel etherpro) and a PCMCIA Linksys WPC54G rev 2. I've figured out how to use ndiswrapper and the linksys ndis driver and I can connect using either interface, via DHCP or static. BUT I have to manually fool around with the network configuration when I need to change which NIC I'm currently using.

Is there a way to configure both NICs and have it use whichever it can find connected, or am I stuck reconfiguring everytime I change arrangements? Windows can do this automatically, so there must be a way to do it here, I'm sure... but I can't find it. Pointers?

Mike-

I don't really know much about it, but I think what you're looking for is "ifplugd" -- some kind of a daemon that makes alterations to the network config of a running system, according to interfaces plugged in and the like.

I don't know much about it, though, besides that it exists.

It's a start - thanks! I'll do some reading directly. Mike- -- Mornings: Evolution in action. Only the grumpy will survive. -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments.

On Sun, 9 Oct 2005 08:47:31 +0200, you wrote:

Hi,

On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 10:01:47 -0400 Michael W Cocke <.> wrote:

...

My thinkpad T22 has both a built-in NIC (Intel etherpro) and a PCMCIA Linksys WPC54G rev 2. I've figured out how to use ndiswrapper and the linksys ndis driver and I can connect using either interface, via DHCP or static. BUT I have to manually fool around with the network configuration when I need to change which NIC I'm currently using.

Is there a way to configure both NICs and have it use whichever it can find connected, or am I stuck reconfiguring everytime I change arrangements? Windows can do this automatically, so there must be a way to do it here, I'm sure... but I can't find it. Pointers?

Maybe you would like to give a try to scpm. I'm still on SUSE 9.1 with my laptop and after about 30 minutes, when I managed to prepare and configure 5+ different profiles with it, felt extremely st*pid, that I didn't tried it earlier! No joke ;) By the way SCPM is System Configuration Profile Management and in fact they started to develop it for handling different network profiles. Now it's an extremely powerful and easy-to-handle tool, which can manage tons of other settings, not only network related ones. I don't know of newer SUSE-releases, but they probably still include scpm, which can be controlled even from yast. In the admin-guide of e.g. SUSE 9.1 there was also a short (and poor) description of its command-line variant, but for me the man pages helped much more.

I hope, that I understand your question well,

Pelibali

Thank you for the pointer, I'll look at it!/ Mike- -- Mornings: Evolution in action. Only the grumpy will survive. -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments.

On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 11:11:41 -0400, you wrote:

On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 04:45 -0400, Michael W Cocke wrote:

...

I'm determined to finally make this work. My thinkpad T22 has both a built-in NIC (Intel etherpro) and a PCMCIA Linksys WPC54G rev 2. I've figured out how to use ndiswrapper and the linksys ndis driver (I think - see below) and I've made the Intel work completely.

First question - Is there a way to configure both NICs and have it use whichever it can find connected, or am I stuck reconfiguring everytime I change arrangements. I can make this work under windows so there must be a way to do it here, I'm sure... but I can't find it.

Try using NetGO to choose the interface. It is available at http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/rpm-navigation.php?cat=/Network/netgo which sure makes it much easier to setup other lans when on the road.

You can also use ifplugd that checks to see what is plugged in and use it but requires manual setup when on the road.

Thanks! I've just downloaded netgo - which was difficult to do with my fingers crossed. 8-)<

Go over your config again. I use the WPC54G and have no problems Usiong NetGO has made my life even easier when on the road or away from home. All you need to do is setup a new profile in NetGo.

I solved this one already - thanks anyway. Mike- -- Mornings: Evolution in action. Only the grumpy will survive. -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments.