On Tuesday 10 August 2004 10:30 am, ALEXANDER PACHECO wrote:
Why does one have to disable the ethernet card? I'm running 9.1 Pro and an Orinoco pcmcia wireless card. I can get an ip address using dhcp but to get onto the internet, I have to force the wireless card to be the default ethernet card. It gets annoying when you use wireless one time and wired the next. Is there an easier way to do it without trying to figure out which one is your default card?
That- I havent figured out yet. Using the if-down if-up routine will get you around the problem but if you're lazy like me you want the thing to work without having to do all the finger magic. The easiest solution I came up with was to disable the ethernet card via Yast. Now I can boot the laptop and the wireless works. When I travel and have to use a wire I simply go into yast and enable the card. There must be some enterprising Geek around who will tell us how to get around this thing with magic. The other os can do it so it cant be that hard. ra