I thought netenv was used for different profiles (eg. home, office, other).
Brendan Simon.
Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 09:30:11PM -0400, Matt Pepper wrote:
>
>> Hi -
>>
>> I have a Dell laptop I am endeavoring to put Debian on however I have a
>> query I'd like to get answered first. Does anyone know if there is a way of
>> handling multiple hardware profiles in Debian similar to the concept within
>> Windows? I ask because when I am at home I have the laptop docked which
>> means not only the PCMCIA ethernet port is present but also an ethernet card
>> within the port replicator is present. When I am at work only the PCMCIA
>> ethernet port is available. Does anyone see any problem with this? Any way
>> to handle the two configurations gracefully?
>>
> I can think of one if you like kernel modules:
>
> Note: I don't know pcmcia-cs
>
> Write a script that switches the /etc/modules files based on detecting the
> docking port from whatever /proc file shows it. It really won't hurt
> anything to have both loaded... Do you want to change other things based on
> being un/docked? Do you use dhcp in both instances, what exactly do you
> want to change based on the hardware available. In your example, you'll
> have ethernet on both...
>
> Mike
>
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