My machine boots at home without a network connection, though it does
take a lot longer to boot due to DHCP timeouts.
I'm using an Apple G3 PowerBook with the builtin ethernet connection.
Brendan Simon.
Matt Pepper wrote:
> My biggest concern is that I wonder if the PC card ethernet port will hang
> at home with no network cable attached and no DHCP server responding to it.
> Any idea if this will be a problem?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Fedyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 9:37 PM
> Subject: Re: hardware profiles?
>
>
>> 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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