For a long time, I have been aware that I did not understand the networking (/etc/sysconfig) part of LFS-7. But on desktops and my server I understood enough to set up a fixed address, or dhclient, on my single eth0 ethernet connection. But I now have LFS on my netbook, which has both eth0 and wifi0 (which is why I'm asking on the blfs support list).
At the moment I have wpa_supplicant working ok, with connectivity for wifi0. For most of my use at home that is ok, although there will be occasions when I want to use the wired eth0. It seems to me that NetworkManager will be my best option, but before I ask about how to get that to work in my setup, I guess I need to ask a simpler question : can I _easily_ switch between eth0 and wifi0 when the wifi is enabled with wpa_supplicant ? It appears to me that if both are enabled on boot, the box will waste time trying to conect to both of them. So at the moment my ifconfig.eth0 has ONBOOT="no" because usually nothing is plugged in there. And if I want to turn off wpa_supplicant, or turn on eth0, root has to edit the two sysconfig files and then reboot ? ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
