Multiple wireless configs?
I've been trying to get multiple wireless configurations to work, so I can visit my friend, or a coffee shop, and just have wireless work immediately. I found two ways to configure wireless--particularly with respect to encryption stuff. Both start from Control Center. Option 1: I select yast2 modules->Network Devices->Network Card then select my wireless card, click on Next, and that gives me the chance to provide an SSID and key for the card. Option 2: I select Internet and Network->Wireless Network. This gives met he chance to create multiple configuration sets with SSID and encryption keys (and multiple keys per SSID too). Unfortunately, which option 2 looks like exactly what I need, it reliably crashes the machine totally when I try to activate anything. Option 1, by contrast, sometimes crashes the machine when it's restarting the network services, but on a reboot, the changes seem to have worked consistently. Is there something wrong with my system that's confusing option 2? Can I find out what files this thing is writing to and create them by hand in such a way that it scans multiple configurations to find a workable one? Or do I just have to configure a single network by hand each time I move around? (That's not a big deal, it's just not as elegant as it could be) TIA Cheers Simon "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." Naguib Mahfouz __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
On Sunday 07 August 2005 10:24 am, Simon Roberts wrote:
I've been trying to get multiple wireless configurations to work, so I can visit my friend, or a coffee shop, and just have wireless work immediately.
I found two ways to configure wireless--particularly with respect to encryption stuff. Both start from Control Center.
Try using profiles instead, have a profile for home and a profile for away. Scott -- POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.11.4-21.8-default x86_64 SuSE Linux 9.3 (x86-64)
Hi Scott, Thanks for replying. Where/how do I set up a profile? I don't recall seeing anything with that name... Cheers, Simon --- Scott Leighton <helphand@pacbell.net> wrote:
On Sunday 07 August 2005 10:24 am, Simon Roberts wrote:
I've been trying to get multiple wireless configurations to work, so I can visit my friend, or a coffee shop, and just have wireless work immediately.
I found two ways to configure wireless--particularly with respect to encryption stuff. Both start from Control Center.
Try using profiles instead, have a profile for home and a profile for away.
Scott
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On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 10:38 -0700, Scott Leighton wrote:
On Sunday 07 August 2005 10:24 am, Simon Roberts wrote:
I've been trying to get multiple wireless configurations to work, so I can visit my friend, or a coffee shop, and just have wireless work immediately.
I found two ways to configure wireless--particularly with respect to encryption stuff. Both start from Control Center.
Try using profiles instead, have a profile for home and a profile for away.
Scott
Try using NetGo for KDE, it works quite good. Profiles are very easy to set up. http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=14221 -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
Ken Schneider wrote:
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 10:38 -0700, Scott Leighton wrote:
On Sunday 07 August 2005 10:24 am, Simon Roberts wrote:
I've been trying to get multiple wireless configurations to work, so I can visit my friend, or a coffee shop, and just have wireless work immediately.
I found two ways to configure wireless--particularly with respect to encryption stuff. Both start from Control Center.
Try using profiles instead, have a profile for home and a profile for away.
Scott
Try using NetGo for KDE, it works quite good. Profiles are very easy to set up.
Will this work for ndiswrapper devices as well, I found switching locked the laptop Sean -- ICQ: 679813 FidoNet: 2:263/950 Jabber: tcob1@jabber.org AOL: tcobone Vodafone Messenger: thecivvie
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 18:46 +0100, Sean Rima wrote:
Ken Schneider wrote:
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 10:38 -0700, Scott Leighton wrote:
On Sunday 07 August 2005 10:24 am, Simon Roberts wrote:
I've been trying to get multiple wireless configurations to work, so I can visit my friend, or a coffee shop, and just have wireless work immediately.
I found two ways to configure wireless--particularly with respect to encryption stuff. Both start from Control Center.
Try using profiles instead, have a profile for home and a profile for away.
Scott
Try using NetGo for KDE, it works quite good. Profiles are very easy to set up.
Will this work for ndiswrapper devices as well, I found switching locked the laptop
Sean
That is what I am using with a linksys pcmcia adapter and it works quite well switching between the builtin nic and the wireless. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
Ken Schneider wrote:
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 18:46 +0100, Sean Rima wrote:
Ken Schneider wrote:
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 10:38 -0700, Scott Leighton wrote:
On Sunday 07 August 2005 10:24 am, Simon Roberts wrote:
I've been trying to get multiple wireless configurations to work, so I can visit my friend, or a coffee shop, and just have wireless work immediately.
I found two ways to configure wireless--particularly with respect to encryption stuff. Both start from Control Center.
Try using profiles instead, have a profile for home and a profile for away.
Scott
Try using NetGo for KDE, it works quite good. Profiles are very easy to set up.
Will this work for ndiswrapper devices as well, I found switching locked the laptop
Sean
That is what I am using with a linksys pcmcia adapter and it works quite well switching between the builtin nic and the wireless.
Just tried it and it works :) SO will try a new network Sean -- ICQ: 679813 FidoNet: 2:263/950 Jabber: tcob1@jabber.org AOL: tcobone Vodafone Messenger: thecivvie
Simon Roberts wrote:
I've been trying to get multiple wireless configurations to work, so I can visit my friend, or a coffee shop, and just have wireless work immediately.
What I have done, is saved different versions of /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan... and then copied the desired one in place, for the network I want, before bringing up WiFi. KWiFiManager should also do what you want, in the same manner as you described in Option 2. However, I've never seen it work.
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 16:16 -0400, James Knott wrote:
Simon Roberts wrote:
I've been trying to get multiple wireless configurations to work, so I can visit my friend, or a coffee shop, and just have wireless work immediately.
What I have done, is saved different versions of /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan... and then copied the desired one in place, for the network I want, before bringing up WiFi. KWiFiManager should also do what you want, in the same manner as you described in Option 2. However, I've never seen it work.
I could never get KWiFiManager to work but have nothing but good luck with NetGo. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
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