Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 11:46:01 +0200 From: Paul Schenkeveld <paul@psconsult.nl> To: FreeBSD Mobile <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org> Subject: on-board ethernet and mobility Message-ID: <20020421114601.A291@psconsult.nl>
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Hi All, I just got my Dell Inspiron 4100 last week and nearly finished setting it up to work like my old Toshiba Libretto. There's however one issue that I might need some help with. I used to travel around with my Libretto, sometimes connecting to a network using a 3Com PCMCIA card, somtimes using a Cisco Aironet card and sometimes not connecting at all. My new Dell has this nice on-board 3Com 100 Mbit ethernet but when I enter 'ifconfig_xl0="DHCP"' in my rc.conf booting will stop at the point where xl0 gets configured if the on-board ethernet is not connected. I've been thinking to not configure xl0 from rc.network/rc.conf but write my own script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d that puts dhclient in the background but ideally I'd like to use the on-board ethernet just like a PCMCIA interface: only start dhclient when the cable is inserted and perhaps also dismantle the xl0 based configuration when the cable gets disconnected. Am I re-thinking something that already exists? Am I completely lost and is there a better/more standard way to accomplish true mobilitu with my on-board ethernet? Any other thoughts? Regards, Paul Schenkeveld To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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