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
On Tuesday 10 August 2004 04:19 pm, Richard wrote:
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.
man scpm -- Jim Barnes -- Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet, you can't win. -Lazarus Long -- Linux 2.6.5-7.104-default
On Tuesday 10 August 2004 07:02 pm, jim barnes wrote:
On Tuesday 10 August 2004 04:19 pm, Richard wrote:
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.
man scpm
-- Jim Barnes -- Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet, you can't win. -Lazarus Long -- Linux 2.6.5-7.104-default
Thanks Jim, that certainly should do the job for those who are able to read and think. For the blain dead types, read newbies from windows, it would be enough to make them run back to the 'other os.' They need something that switches between eth0 and wlan0 based on what is connected without human intervention. Ferinstance, my laptop has XP on it and assuming the wireless works, which is problematic in windows, I can plug the ethernet cable in and it swtiches automagically to that. If I disconnect the wire the wireless takes hold and looks for a connection. which is about the only time you dont have to restart the damned thing. Although Linux on the same machine is much easier and more reliable in the wireless mode, it takes a bit of finger magic to switch from one to the other. It would be real nice to know how linux senses a connection and then do a script, I guess, to make the switch based on what is sensed. At this point I'm not smart enough to do that. ra
On Tuesday 10 August 2004 20:44, Richard wrote:
On Tuesday 10 August 2004 04:19 pm, Richard wrote: be enough to make them run back to the 'other os.' They need something
On Tuesday 10 August 2004 07:02 pm, jim barnes wrote: that switches between eth0 and wlan0 based on what is connected without human intervention.
Have a look at ifplugd (http://packman.links2linux.org/?action=359). I do not have any personal experience with this tool, but the description sounds like it can do what you want. Michael
On Tuesday 10 August 2004 11:27 pm, Michael Siefritz wrote:
Have a look at ifplugd (http://packman.links2linux.org/?action=359). I do not have any personal experience with this tool, but the description sounds like it can do what you want.
Michael that's it! I just installed it in my Dell and it works beautifully. Now I can use the xp look and fool all my friends. Thanks for the tip. Richard
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