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