On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 01:33, Joerg Mertin wrote: > Hi James, > > I di remember that the old RedHat Systems had something like that built in - > through linuxconf. > > You have however to archive a configuration for the "Switch Profile"to show > up. You can then activate the restored configuration if you want to. > > I do remember that back in tinme - with my 486DX2-55MHz Subnotebook running on > 20MBytes Ram - this was quite neat :) - I had built linuxconf into the > rc.sysinit file to have it started right away for me to have the option to > choose. I can't look at it any longer - as the Harddisk failed (cute > 500MBytes HD :)) .... > > Mandrake has Linuxconf installed too - and as I just checked - these > profile-switching do still work. Just don't forget to give the Profile a name > you'll recognise and save it when it's doing what you want it to do. > > *g* Glad I could be of any use to you for a change :) > > Cheers > > Joerg
This explains why I've never seen it.. I haven't touched linuxconf in years... I'll try it and see what happens. James > > On Sunday 20 July 2003 02:08, James Sparenberg wrote: > > Ok, > > Miracles do happen.. I've got wireless working flawlessly on my > > laptop. (one letter change in the config file to reflect a different > > model of my card uggh.) Now I need to know one thing. Has anyone found > > a program that will allow you to create/switch profiles on the fly. > > Right now I have 3 ifcfg files that a bash script switches and restarts > > pcmcia to get me on one of the nets (home office and generic with no > > wepkey) If it's really this simple why are all of the profile programs > > I've found requiring me to hold one leg out the window with my tongue on > > the right side of my mouth holding down ctrl-alt-delete and 156 entries > > in various files to modify lilo on the fly. (ok I exaggerate a bit.) > > > > Is there a simple program that lets me create and switch profiles? > > Winders can do it and dang it I want to be able to as well. (without btw > > rebooting!) > > > > James
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