I'm listing a few things I did to make networking painless on my laptop. This is probably not the best solution - but it works for me. My current goal with networking is to be able to use a wired or wireless at home or at work, and switch between them with as little pain as possible.In case of wireless I have different encryption settings at either location. All configs use dhcp. My setup is as follows: - using neat - configure eth0 for the wireless card (with home wireless settings) - this is eth0-Home - create a 'copy' of this interface (with work settings)- eth0-Work - no interface is activated by default. This creates ifcfg-Home, ifcfg-Work scripts in /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices I normally don't use both wired/wireless cards at the same time. I remove one before inserting the other. With this - I can just use eth0 config for both wired as well as wireless. The following things help here (with unloading the drivers cleanly when switching cards - using 'ifconfig eth0 down; cardctl eject' ) - remove the eth0 bindings in /etc/modules.conf - comment out HWADDR in /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/* - perhaps use ifconfig eth0 down (instead of ifdown eth0) To activate wired interface I do: $ ifup eth0 To activate my wireless card at work - I run the following script (I have a similar script for home) #!/bin/sh /sbin/ifconfig eth0 down /bin/rm -f /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 /bin/ln /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-Work /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 /sbin/ifup eth0 Note: it is easy to add in eth1 for a wired interface so that the following 3 combinations work: eth0-wired eth0-wireless eth0-wireless, eth1-wired Getting 'eth0-wired & eth1-wireless' ALSO working to the above combinations requres the same kind of setup as above for eth1 as well ( and some more scripts) - so I didn't bother with it. Satish On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 12:05, Eduardo Silva wrote: > > > > > >In redhat 9 i am not able to fix that and it is a big problem and major > >inconvenience because i use 9 different profiles. The problems i am > >having is that at boot the wrong modules are being loaded and when i > >access neat to configure networking i get error that eth0 has orinoco_cs > >loaded instead of 3c59x which is specified in /etc/modules.conf and most > >neat networking functionality is broken at that point..It doesn't allow > >to do anything other than delete the devices. I tried to trace the bug > >but wasn't able to find it. > >So i have to do the following every time I change my network settings. > >ifdown eth0 > >modprobe -d orinoco_cs > >modprobe -all > >edit the various scripts depending on my current network setup. or just > >use iwconfig to start eth1 > >ifup eth0 > >ifup eth1 > >dhcclient > > > >Has anyone encountered these problems? > > > >my /etc/modules.conf has the following for the network interfaces > >alias eth0 3c59x > >alias eth1 orinoco_cs > > > > > >Regards, > > > > > > > I have this same problem with RH9 I I only have two profiles. I have a > laptop and use a PCMCIA Ethernet Card for when I am undocked. When I > work from the office I use a docking station with a 3COM card 3C59x, as > you do. And I face the same issue: > > " So the cards are detected and named in the wrong order, eth0 for the > 3COM and eth1 for the XIRCOM. This basically causes mayhem and RH will > not activate them on boot or on redhat-config-network or ifconfig saying > that /etc/modules.conf has incorrectly loaded eth0 with xircom_cb > instead of the 3c9x it should, and so forth for eth 1. > > Only way around this I've found (I'm a newbie) is to delete all net > config using redhat network tool, and readd both NICs in the order of > detection. This however causes problems when I use the laptop undocked, > again because eth0 is detected as xircom_cb, although /etc/modules.conf > (at this point) has it against 3c90x. " > > I really have not found any answeres for this yet. The reason for this > post is to say : "I feel you pain" > > > -- > > *Eduardo Silva* > Wireless Network Engineer > ESN 587 4664 PSTN - 91 709 4664 > Mobile 600 595 219 > e-mail: edusilva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:edusilva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > >
