On Friday 11 October 2002 08:45 pm, John O'Shaughnessy wrote: > Greetings, > > I've got a Dell Latitude C400 with mandrake 9.0. > > There is: > 1. Inboard Ethernet (always present) > 2. Dock Ethernet (present only when docked) > 3. Wireless Ethernet PC Card (present only when inserted -- could be either > docked or undocked. > > When I installed the system, eth0 was the internal interface, eth1 was the > dock, and wireless was added later, showing up as eth2. > > Now, when I try to book undocked, the system freezes trying to bring up > eth1, which, I'm assuming, means it is looking for the Dock Ethernet, which > isn't there. I need to power down, or CTRL-ALT-DEL to get out of the > situation. > > Is there a way to make the system understand that the interfaces may or may > not be present, or at the very least, not to hang when not docked?
John,
If you run Mandrake Control Center and go to the Networking module, you
will be able to create separate profiles for each NIC in your laptop. I
haven't used that before, so I can't vouch for its abilities...
--
Dave Sherman | "They that can give up essential liberty
MCSE, MCSA, CCNA | to obtain a little temporary safety
| deserve neither liberty nor safety."
| - Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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