On 12 Mar 2003 16:48:46 -0800 James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> OK,
>
> I've fought with it till I'm blue in the face and it seems I finally
> have tricked my hardware into allowing me to use a wireless nic. Now
> I've got to find out how to do something simple enough in theory... move
> around. IE I've got wireless at the office wireless at home and
> wireless at Borders (or Starbucks or McD's) So ... each has it's own
> config/wep key... and no matter what I do it seems that 9.x is
> determined to overwrite one config with the other.... Danged if I can
> get multiple profiles working... Has any one got a tip... I'd love to
> suspend the box... go to work... use the box... suspend... go home
> use... just like windows people..... so far... I can only
>
> A. Use a wired NIC everywhere but home
> B. Reconfigure (a 20 minute nightmare) every time I move.
> C. Cry insanely in my beer......
>
> How have any of you solved this?
>
> James
Here's a quick script I hacked a while back... it's very specific to my
travelling; but could serve as a guide...
Essentially, I got the networking working correctly at each location and
copied each set of working files like this:
/etc/resolv.conf --> /usr/local/network/resolv.conf.{NC,SC,dial}
/etc/sysconfig/network -->
/usr/local/network/sysconfig/network.{NC,SC,dial}
Then, when I travel to another location, I simply fire up the laptop and
as root, issue:
# chnet NC (DSL connected LAN)
# chnet SC (LAN to modem-sharing desktop)
# chnet dial (direct dial)
and I'm up and running.... Since I'll be travelling more soon, I plan to
rework this to allow multi-location dial access using my ISP's list of
dialups...
Aside: if anyone has been able to compile kaptain
(http://kaptain.sourceforge.net) on ML9.0, I'd be interested in how to
solve the Qt dependancies...
HTH,
Pierre
file:/usr/local/bin/chnet:
#!/bin/bash
NETSRC=/usr/local/network
RESOLV=resolv.conf
NETWORK=sysconfig/network
case $1 in
eth*|LAN|NC)
cp -a ${NETSRC}/${RESOLV}.NC /etc/${RESOLV}
cp -a ${NETSRC}/${NETWORK}.NC /etc/${NETWORK}
service network restart
;;
SC)
cp -a ${NETSRC}/${RESOLV}.SC /etc/${RESOLV}
cp -a ${NETSRC}/${NETWORK}.SC /etc/${NETWORK}
service network restart
;;
dial*|mod*)
rm -f /dev/modem
modprobe lt_modem
ln -s /dev/tts/LT0 /dev/modem
cp -a ${NETSRC}/${RESOLV}.dial /etc/${RESOLV}
cp -a ${NETSRC}/${NETWORK}.dial /etc/${NETWORK}
route del default
;;
"")
echo <<EOF
Usage:
$0 <location>
EOF
;;
esac
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