On 04/01/05 04:59 PM, Dennis J. Tuchler
Where can I get the best current information about setting up a built-in wireless card (eth1) for use when the regular ethernet card (eth0) is not connected?
I dont think there are howto's on this subject, but as our last few batches of laptops have been dual boots with inbuilt wireless cards so I know more than a little about this :-) Assuming your distro is 9.2 (which has numerous wifi improvements), and your card has not been detected on instalation. You also need to know what chipset your card uses and how it interfaces to your system, this will either be PCMCIA or USB. YaST -> Network Devices -> Network Card Choose "Configure" for a manual setup. For "Device Type" select "Wireless", leave the "Configuration Name" set to zero. Leave the "Hardware Configuration Name" set to "Static-0". You should now select the kernel module for your wifi card using "Select From List". Our cards were Prism chipsets with miniusb, so we use prism2_usb.o That should be it, there are options you can set in your /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan-$ to make it the prefered DHCP client, but 9.2 is quite capable of detecting which interface dhcp is on. The only issues we've had are teachers moving about the school with their laptops still turned on and moving from wired to wireless with the wired dhcp lease still valid; but a simple script shutting down the cards and then restarting them solved the problem. Regards, Ben