Wireless configuration (bugs?)

[Carl Gherardi]

Comments very much appreciated, and should sort my problem.

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 04:00 +0200, Peter wrote:
> Am Di, den 21.09.2004 schrieb Carl Gherardi um 3:09:
> > Problem - dhclient decided to nuke:
> > a) /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (argh I had two network
> > setups in there... home and work) even though the card was being
> > identified as ath0. This seems wrong.
> > b) /etc/resolv.conf - this is more expected, but I had though dhclient
> > would leave commented lines alone.
> > 
> > After all that a question - is it possible to have two nics, one using
> > dhcp and the other static that does not destroy configs.
> 
> Of course it is possible to have more than one nic. 

:)

Should have mentioned that the two nics cant be in my laptop at the same
time, they physically dont fit.

You mentioned kudzu doesn't support aetheros cards, so this explains it
anyway.

> At first you should
> use system-config-network to (re-)configure your Xircom Card in a proper
> way (as eth0). Test it.

A proper way? Do you mean using profiles?

I haven't used it in the past as I usually do a minimal install and add
packages using apt or yum, and that package isn't part of it.

Cheers

Carl Gherardi

Apologies...

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