Joe Christy wrote:
I recently replaced a laptop with a removable PCMCIA 802.11 card with
one that has its 802.11 built in.
Is there a clever way to have FC2 try to ifup the wireless if, and
only if, ifup'ing the fixed ethernet fails?
On my old laptop, I could simply insert the PCMCIA card before I boot
w/o the ethernet plugged in and leave it out otherwise. That way one
or the other would be guaranteed to fail. Now, when the ethernet is
plugged in, both interfaces come up and I have routing conflicts.
Joe
Nothing automatic about it but you could use system-config-network to
create multiple network profiles, one in which wireless is active, and
the other in which the wired ethernet is active. Then use the
"netprofile=aProfile" kernel argument at boot to select the profile you
need. The latter can become grub boot menu choices by duplicating the
lines for the default boot in /boot/grub/grub.conf, then adding the
netprofile= setting to the end of the kernel line in each (using
different profile names) and changing the names of the two boot entries
accordingly.
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