Routing Table Problem

[Robert L Cochran <cochranb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've kept working on learning how to use the Intersil chipset driver for 
my SMC 54 MBps wireless network card for my laptop, and tonight I got 
"almost" connected to the internet with it. I think my problem is 
changing the default gateway in the routing table.

The laptop has 2 PCMCIA network cards installed.

eth0 -- is a "wired" PCMCIA card.
eth1 -- is the SMC wireless PCMCIA card.

I went to a T-Mobile Hotspot, booted up, spent some time fiddling with 
networking and card configuration scripts, then was thrilled to see the 
link light on my wireless card glow steadily! 'ifconfig' confirmed the 
wireless card got an ip address.

But, the routing table still reflected the gateway address for eth0. So 
I need to get rid of that gateway address and substitute the one that 
eth1 got from the dhcp server.

Now for my question  -- how do the experienced wireless folks deal with 
this? When I'm home, I want to plug the notebook into my wired network 
(eth0). When I'm on the road, I want to just slide the wireless card in 
and connect to the internet without too much fuss and bother with scripts.

--
Bob Cochran
Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
http://greenbeltcomputer.biz/




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