Am Montag, 3. Oktober 2005 08:51 schrieb Patrick Fehr:
> Am Sonntag 25 September 2005 21:43 schrieb Marcus Meissner:
> > On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 09:26:57PM +0200, Patrick Fehr wrote:
> > > The madwifi driver, which I need for my Atheros a/b card is NOT
> > > in the kernel, I always had to "emerge" it seperately, how does
> > > Suse handle it? I saw under
> > It is in the kernel, you will need the kernel-default-nongpl RPM
> > from the external instsource howerver.
> Grabbed the sources from
> ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/suse/suse/i386/10.0/SUSE-Linux10.0-RC1-
>Extra/kernel-modules+firmware/suse/i586/kernel-default-nongpl-2.6.13-8
>.i586.rpm Installed and it worked!
> No I need to find out how to gain more control over it, like how to
> use vpn and turn wlan manually on and off, is this easy? I don't want
> it to start everytime at boot

Hi,

Startmode ifplugd, but not tested for wlan.

> and I don't want the wired conn there 
> either. I'd like the ethernet to start at plugging in the cable

Set the startmode of the interface to ifplugd. It writes "PHY reset 
until link up" every 5 seconds to the log, but works. Have a look at 
your /var/log/messages...

> and 
> the wireless to start when an appropriate AP is nearby OR manually.

Can't say, my wlan card (broadcom) is not supported (maybe ndiswrapper) 
and it's the only wlan device I own. So no chance to test.

-- mdc

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