On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 01:06, Ossama Khayaat wrote: > I'm using RH9 on my laptop. I'm having a problem that every time that I take it somewhere, I have to change the configuration of the NIC to be able to connect to the network. > Is there a way I can be able to save the configurations so that I can simply switch between them when ever I need? The official way to support multiple network configurations is to use redhat-config-network (its menu is System Preferences->Network) to create separate profiles (there's online help on how to do this). Then, clone your grub (or other boot utility) entry for each profile and specify a different "netprofile=<profile_name>", such as: title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-19.9) Home root (hd0,5) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-19.9 ro root=LABEL=/ netprofile=home initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-19.9.img title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-19.9) Work root (hd0,5) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-19.9 ro root=LABEL=/ netprofile=work initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-19.9.img The netprofile environment variable is detected by /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, which calls "redhat-config-network-cmd --profile" to make the switch. NOTE: this works great if your ethernet devices don't move around depending on where you run your laptop. Because my docking station has a built-in ethernet card, redhat-config-network-cmd's ethernet probe causes its driver to get loaded first. This bumps my built-in wireless card from eth0 to eth1 when docked, which conflicts with the /etc/modules.conf alias redhat-config-network set up. I therefore can't use netprofile, and wrote a similar profile switcher which doesn't probe. Tom -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
