[Hudlug] Wireless connections

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 14 Nov 2005 10:04, Ben Fowler wrote:
> On 11/11/05, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Friday 11 Nov 2005 11:49, Andy Macdonald wrote:
> > > Get an Apple Mac? They've had built in location switching for
> > > yonks.
>
> Whilst I can confirm the info, I doubt that it was the answer
> requested!
>
> > It's probably here on Mandriva, too.  It's my ignorance of all
> > things laptop and wireless that is the problem. :-)
> >
> > > It should be fairly easy (Ha!) to rig up network config scripts
> > > to run for different locations? And even fire them off from the
> > > GUI?
> >
> > It's not big deal to set it up again.  I just wondered.
>
> Is there a setting in your DHCP config for this?
>
> Do you have scripts in the same form as
>
> /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start
>
> for PPP, WiFi and other media?
>
Hi, Ben.  I'm going to try for a while with eth0 (cable) set to static 
IP, and the wireless connection set to dhcp.  I was surprised to see 
that working, as I thought I had set the router to *not* serve dhcp.

Anne
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