<posted & mailed> mathieu.millet@xxxxxxx wrote: > Le mar 12/10/2004 à 13:32, Timothy Murphy a écrit : >> I'm looking for a program to run on my laptop >> which will set up network connections properly >> according to whether I am at home or at work. >> >> Do any Fedora users have advice on a good program for this? > Did you check the network configuration tools (standard in Fedora Core > 2) ? > > Look in the menu : System Parameters -> Network. > > It allows you to create different profiles and to (de)activate different > interfaces and parameters (DNS, route...) according each profile. > > The "user" side of this tool is "Network Connection Control" in the > System Tools menu that allows user to (de)activate interfaces (if you > allow users to activate these interfaces). Thanks for pointing this out to me. It looks as though it is exactly what I want - but unfortunately I found it more or less unusable. If I go to Start=>System Settings=>Network (giving the superuser password when asked) I get a screen with one line, which I assume corresponds to a "profile". The first column in the table is named "Profile" and has a tick in it (which I can turn off), but I have no idea what this means. If I go to the Profile tab at the top, and click on New, nothing happens - I would expect a new line to appear, which I could then edit. However, bizarrely, if I reboot the machine I find there are now two lines, the second presumably corresponding to the new profile. But if I choose to "Edit" this new line, I find I am unable to choose DHCP, as I wish. Have I misunderstood how this tool is meant to work, or does it not work as it should? Has anyone successfully used it? I should say I am running FC3-test2. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
