>>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.
I'm not experienced.. but hope it helps..
1st. I'm not sure if your SMC is detected by your install by default (I use
RH9 with netgear MA401RA - orinoco drivers) What I do is to create different
profiles for the different configs. If you use redhat-config-network and
click on the help button, you will learn about profiles.
>>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.
Hmm.. I've never had this problem in a sense. Mine just boots up, detects
the network to connect to, request for IP and then I'm in! So.. I'm not sure
about your problem. Maybe you have to provide more details??
Cheers, .^.
Mun Heng, Ow /V\
H/M Engineering /( )\
Western Digital M'sia ^^-^^
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-----Original Message-----
From: Robert L Cochran [mailto:cochranb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 10:15 AM
To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Routing Table Problem
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.
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Bob Cochran
Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
http://greenbeltcomputer.biz/
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