Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 23:17:57 +0100 From: Henrik W Lund <henrik.w.lund@broadpark.no> To: "Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]" <Danovitsch@Vitsch.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB and routing... Message-ID: <1066771077.3f95a28547117@mail.broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <200310211717.58335.Danovitsch@Vitsch.net> References: <1066746398.3f95421e31f73@mail.broadpark.no> <200310211717.58335.Danovitsch@Vitsch.net>
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Quoting "Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]" <Danovitsch@Vitsch.net>: > 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 have > > 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 > output > > showed usbd doing its thing. However, the other day this stopped working, > > and I now have to have the USB mouse inserted at startup for it to > function > > 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="YES" in /etc/rc.conf That's the weird bit. It's running just fine. It just doesn't react when I plug in my mouse. It worked fine up until a couple of days ago. The one major change I did to my system at the time was compile soundcard support into the kernel, but I left all the USB drivers untouched. The device node is still present in /dev, so this one has me boggled. It's not that the mouse doesn't work at all, it's just that it doesn't work as a USB mouse. :-/ > > 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 Wireless > > 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 there > a > > tidy way to do this automatically? One default route per NIC, for > instance? > You could create a script that checks every X-seconds if the network card is > > connected. If the status goes to "active", add your schools gateway. If the > status goes to "no carrier", change to your wireless gateway. > (you can get the status from ifconfig) > > grtz, > Daan > I'll try that. Might as well learn some scripting as well. ;-) Thanks! --
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