Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 17:17:58 +0200 From: "Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]" <Danovitsch@Vitsch.net> To: Henrik W Lund <henrik.w.lund@broadpark.no> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: USB and routing... Message-ID: <200310211717.58335.Danovitsch@Vitsch.net> In-Reply-To: <1066746398.3f95421e31f73@mail.broadpark.no> References: <1066746398.3f95421e31f73@mail.broadpark.no>
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On Tuesday 21 October 2003 17:26, Henrik W Lund wrote: > ...but not necessarily in relation to one another. ;-) > > This is my second go at FreeBSD, and it's my umpteenth one with UNIXes = in > general. Having done my share of Linux (with one recent battle being > setting up a web/mail/NFS/NIS/Samba server for a school project. *puh* = I > thought I knew what frustration was, but boy was I wrong!), I've moved = onto > FreeBSD because - well, I think it's easier to set up, and you don't ha= ve > to relate to several different versions of the same OS. Now, onto my > questions: > > 1. I have installed onto a laptop computer, with a USB mouse and a > touchpad. Now, up until very recently, the USB mouse worked fine when I > inserted it and took it out while the system was on, and the console ou= tput > showed usbd doing its thing. However, the other day this stopped workin= g, > and I now have to have the USB mouse inserted at startup for it to func= tion > at all. This is, of course, no biggie, but it kinda defeats the purpose= of > the whole USB thing, doesn't it? The touchpad, however, works perfectly= , > always. I think you don't have "usbd" running. Check if you have usbd_enable=3D"YES" in /etc/rc.conf > 2. I have one built-in NIC and a Wireless NIC, both of which work > perfectly, the way they're supposed to. Now, my beef is that the Wirele= ss > NIC is used for home, and gets IP via DHCP from my router. The built-in= NIC > is used for school, must have IP assigned manually (from rc.conf), and = has > a totally different IP range that my network at home. This, of course, > leads to mayhem when the default route is to be established. If I enter= the > gateway at school statically, my laptop gets online at school, but not = at > home. If I don't, my laptop gets online at home, but I have to manually > "route add default etc" everytime I want to go online at school. Is the= re a > tidy way to do this automatically? One default route per NIC, for insta= nce? You could create a script that checks every X-seconds if the network card= is=20 connected. If the status goes to "active", add your schools gateway. If t= he=20 status goes to "no carrier", change to your wireless gateway. (you can get the status from ifconfig) grtz, Daan=09
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