On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 14:14, Kevin Wang wrote: > Indeed. I miss the original pcmcia method of configuring the cards. > you could id them by mac or some other distinguishing trait. > > I've occasionally re-implemented functionality like that, but usually > what I do instead is that I ahve an 'idle' script that detects active > network connections, refuses to shut down, but eventually kill > sendmail, eject pcmcia card, and then put the machine to sleep. > > On resume, it just tries network key 1 (work) and network key 2 (home) > and 'any' (open network). It tries to get a dhcp address within 5 > seconds, otherwise it switches between the keys until it finds a > network. If none of these is correct, I have the keys encoded in > /usr/local/etc/iwkey to do it "by hand", for example > '/usr/local/etc/iwkey george_house' or '/usr/local/etc/iwkey > michelle_house' > > So it's still very much a manual process, but I prefer it that way, > since I can usually type the command faster than some automatic system > trying all possible networks that I've visited before. > > I can clean up and post the script if anyone's interested. > > - Kevin Is there a bugzilla open for this? It is something that needs to be addressed as some point. I would be interested in looking over the scripts you mentioned. Can probably learn much from that. -- Scot L. Harris <webid@xxxxxxxxxx>
