On Sat, 08 Jan 2000, Bernie Gardner wrote:
I have a laptop which is working great with SuSe 6.3. At home I have a cable modem connected to a desktop computer and have successfully setup masquerading so the laptop has internet access and at work i can connect to the university network. I have been looking for a way to automate the network setup at the two locations, which doing manually seems to be more difficult than desirable twice a day. I found the "PCMCIA" Notebook in miscellaneous networks" entry in the SuSE support database, and it looked likd an ideal solution except that when I tried it, I could get no ethernet connection at all. Ifconfig showed only the lo local loopback entry. I tried rcnetwork restart and /sbin/init.d/route stop/start with no change.
I'ld appreciate advice on getting the pcmcia scheme system to work, or any other easy way of changing network settings.
Thanks,
Bernie Gardner
I don't know if this will help, but I use my laptop in two different networks and this is how I do it. I switched to using dhcpcd for my dhcp connection at work and at home I have a static address on my masq'ed ADSL connection. I set the static address in yast on the card. When I plug in at home as soon as it boots I'm online. When I get to work I plug in and boot. Because I use private numbering at home the set address really doesn't cause any problems, then as soon as I log in I start dhcpcd which then gets my proper address from the server at work. I use Window Maker and just made an entry on my menu to start DHCP on demand. So when at work I log in and click a menu entry and I'm up and running. At home I just plug in and boot. Maybe not the ideal, but for me it's perfect. I suppose if you are running static addresses in more than one place this won't work, but thought I would offer up the idea anyway. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Darren R. Weber drw@linuxfan.com ICQ# 2849193 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/