Hi, Em Terça 25 Abril 2006 01:20, Paul Johnson escreveu: > I'm an "old hand" at Linux, and am able to make my wired & wireless > connections work, but only with some difficulty. Yesterday I helped a > young lady install linux on a laptop and found it darned-near > impossible to explain to her how she is supposed to handle the problem > of going for place-to-place, using different wired and wireless > networks. So I wondered if the Gnome or KDE folks had worked this > out. > > Just for example, I need to have these devices configured > > 1. Wired home router: dhcp > 2. Wired for office 1: static ip, gateway & /etc/resolv.conf > 3. Wired for office 2: static ip, gateway & /etc/resolv.conf > 4. Wireless for home router, SSID="home1" and 24 digit WEP key > 5. Wireless in pizza restaurant, SSID="fred's pizza", but no WEP key > 6. Wireless at school, SSID="JAYHAWK", no WEP key > 7. Wireless at George's house, SSID="casa", 10 digit WEP key In FC's repositories (extras) there's an application named netgo, which is intended to address exactly the problems you've described in your e-mail. Since I don't use mobile computing, I didn't install it yet, but I think it's worth trying. Do a "yum install netgo" and tell us your opinions about it. []'s Marcelo
