FC2 Ethernet and Wireless settings

[Kevin Wang]

<gripe>
and this is where the original pcmcia insert scripts win over the dumb
scripts that exist today...
</gripe>

but back to the original problem:  how to configure two different
network cards even though they both end up being eth0?

You're on the right path.  You basically have to implement card
detection all on your own.  fun, isn't it?

   - kevin

On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 10:34:14 +0800, Ow Mun Heng <ow.mun.heng at wdc.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 21:57, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 00:18, Peter Smith wrote:
> > I think there is way to configure different network profiles and then
> > select which one you want to use.  Have not done this myself but I found
> > this which may get you going the right direction.
> >
> > http://www.linuxgazette.com/book/view/1754
> (I'm replying this before I read the above link so, sorry if this is
> duplicated)
> 
> This is how I do it when I switch from using a pcmcia network to a
> pcmcia wireless. Since my dell has only 1 slot, I need to configure it
> to various different settings. (since both wants to be called eth1)
> 
> user $ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
> # Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
> # for the documentation of these parameters.
> DEVICE=eth1
> case `ifconfig eth1 | sed -ne 's/.*HWaddr *\([^ ]*\) */\1/p'` in
> 00:60:08:B1:1C:03)
>                 . eth-3com;;
> 
> 00:09:5B:0E:0B:D1)
>                . eth-netgear;;
> 
> *) echo "Unknown MAC address. Please update ifcfg-eth1"
> 
> esac
> 
> [ -n "$USERDEVICENAME" ] && echo $DEVICE > /tmp/$USERDEVICENAME
> 
> IPV6INIT=no
> ONBOOT=no
> USERCTL=yes
> PEERDNS=yes
> TYPE=Ethernet
> DEVICE=eth1
> BOOTPROTO=dhcp
> 
> user $ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/eth-3com
> # Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
> # for the documentation of these parameters.
> USERDEVICENAME=eth-3com
> USERCTL=yes
> PEERDNS=yes
> ONBOOT=no
> #BOOTPROTO=none
> BOOTPROTO=dhcp
> TYPE=Ethernet
> #IPADDR=10.0.0.1
> DEVICE=eth1
> HWADDR=00:60:08:b1:1c:03
> BOOTPROTO=none
> NETMASK=255.255.255
> 
> cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/eth-netgear
> # Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
> # for the documentation of these parameters.
> USERDEVICENAME=eth-netgear
> USERCTL=yes
> PEERDNS=yes
> GATEWAY=
> ONBOOT=no
> TYPE=Wireless
> DHCP_HOSTNAME=
> IPADDR=
> DEVICE=eth1
> HWADDR=00:09:5b:0e:0b:d1
> BOOTPROTO=dhcp
> DOMAIN=
> NETMASK=
> ESSID=
> CHANNEL=1
> MODE=Managed
> KEY=
> RATE=2Mb/s
> 
> 
> --
> Ow Mun Heng
> Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 on D600 1.4Ghz CPU kernel
> 2.6.7-2.jul1-interactive 
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> 
> 
> 
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