Scot L. Harris wrote:
On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 03:23, Peter Smith wrote:
Hello List,
I am confused. My questions:
1. Is it possible to set up the Xircom card, with work IP numbers as "eth0" and with home IPs as "eth1", and the wireless card as "eth2" , and not have to reconfigure everything every time I change location?
2. What is the correct way to set up the wireless card - should it be possible with the GUI screens, should I use terminal commands, or should I just edit the appropriate configuration files directly? (If so, which?)
3. Should I identify the gateway using the GUI screen or the"route" command. They seem to have different effects.
Sounds like you have the same or similar laptop that I do. I have the
Dell Latitude CPx. Use the Xircom PCMCIA and a D-Link DWL-G650 wireless
card. The DWL-G650 also uses the prism54 driver. In my case I use DHCP
at work when using the Xircom card and DHCP at home when using the
wireless card.
Yes, I have a Latitude CPx J650.
Not sure if this is part of the problem or not, but for all of yourThanks, this fixed question 4, which I didn't ask yet. The boot sequence tries to initialise eth0 before the pcmcia system, and so gets a bit upset.
PCMCIA cards make sure you uncheck the box that says activate at boot in
the network configuration window. This is a known problem (which I
doubt will ever be fixed.)
I need to use a fixed IP at work, for various reasons. I will try DHCP at home, though.On my system the wireless card works and is loaded as eth0 the same as the xircom card. I have said it before the way wireless cards are handled under linux (I think this applies to all distributions not just Fedora) is fairly poor. You can get it to work but it is not really pretty.
In my case, like yours, I can not really select the prism54 driver nor
is the card listed correctly under the network configuration tool. I
believe it shows as a 3com. What is really funny is that the same
configuration is used whether I have the xircom card or the D-Link card
inserted. Like you I kind of expected to have two configurations that
would be setup with the proper one selected based on the card inserted.
Best suggestion for your setup is to use DHCP. Most likely the AP you
have will supply DHCP not only for your wireless card but for your
xircom card as well. At work they probably have DHCP but may not. In
that case you will need to hard code the IP address, subnet, and gateway
info, as well as the DNS information.
I have it working, except that sometimes I can't see past the gateway. I haven't seen any consistent explanation for that yet - poke around a bit and it comes good with identical settings AFAIKS.I have not spent anytime on it but I believe there is a thread or two in the news group about using profiles which may resolve this for you. But if you can use DHCP I have found that to be painless moving from work to home and back.
And don't forget to disable activation at boot time for your PCMCIA cards. They will magically start anyway when the PCMCIA services start. include ("rant_number_1_here.php");
I would like to see Kevin's scripts too. Is there anything on ifconfig, iwconfig and route for beginners? Google helped me get this far, but I don't really know what I am doing :-).
Thanks a lot, Peter
