On 10 November 2013 23:39, Chavdar Ivanov <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10 November 2013 20:32, Ottavio Caruso > <[email protected]> wrote: >> 2) How can I tell the system not to spend time configuring the card if >> no cable is plugged in, without blacklisting the card in rc.conf? > > I'd suggest use dhcpcd.
I've done that and it fixed one problem, but then I got all my screen splattered with arplookup: unable to locate address ..... arplookup: unable to locate address ..... arplookup: unable to locate address ..... I had to add: auto_ifconfig=NO to rc.conf. Considering I'd have to start wpa_supplicant manually all the time, not having all interfaces up is not a problem. >> 4) I swap between home (wpa) and public library (open network) >> wireless. Is there any kind of user friendly gui-based applet that can >> help me switch between these networks? > > Well, there is GUI in pkgsrc (see net/dhcpcd-gtk), I've tried it, but > I usually preconfigure my wireless networks in wpa_supplicant.conf - > you can have as many networks defined there as you like, it will pick > up the one which is available and associate with it; from then on > dhcpcd will get you an address from the DHCP server on the network (in > the trivial case the wireless router). > Thanks. I'll look into that (tomorrow). Good night. -- Ottavio
