Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 23:01:43 +0000 From: David Dooley <dpd@raffles-it.com> To: freebsd-Mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <200103022301.f22N1hC03361@dribble.lan.raffles-it.com>
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Hi,
I sent this mail to questions a couple of days ago. I figured that I would
give you guys a go a telling me how stupid I am for wanting to try and do
this. I have added the clarification I also sent to the bottom of this posting.
Just to hammer home the point. I am trying to get different configurations for
different locations, not multipule configs on the same card. The work config
is a wired lan that I want to use a 3com card for. Home is a WaveLan card
connecting via a Residential Gateway, the configuration I use to set up the
card is below (part of the second posting). The wavelan configuration for my
friends place is also below as he has an access point device (second post
below). This why I asked in my original post to be able to configure the
wavelan card dependent on which pcmcia slot it is inserted in.
Appoligies if you have already seen this on questions, and if this a really
stupid question.
Thanks for your time.
David.
> Hi,
>
> I am wondering if it is at all possible to have multipule lan configurations
> on the same laptop, depending on what card is inserted in which pcmcia slot.
>
> I have a Lucent WaveLan card that I would like to configure for home in the
> top slot - on a residential gateway, if inserted in the bottom slot
> reconfigure for an accesspoint, both DHCP. If I insert a 3com 16 bit card yat
> another configuration but this time static network address and such.
>
> I figure that this will require some hacking of the network setup scripts, but
> I am not sure what would be the best way to approach, or even if it is
> possible to get the slot a card is inserted into. I have been looking at
> rc.network, pccard.conf and start_if.wi0 but I cannot see how I would get the
> slot information as nothing appears to use this information.
>
> I want to do this so I can take my laptop from home to work and to friends
> with out having to spend hours reconfigureing for each location.
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> Please feel free to tell me that what I want to do is stupid, i just figured
> it would make my life simpler once it was configured.
>
> David.
And this clarification:-
Work is using a wired lan, no wave lan, for which I have a 3com card, no dhcp,
need to staticaly reconfigure for DNS, netmask, domain name, router.
Home, uses dhcp with the WaveLan Card conneted to a residential gateway and
all works here is how i configure the card from /etc/pccard.conf
# Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE
card "Lucent Technologies" "WaveLAN/IEEE"
config 0x1 "wi" ?
insert /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i $device -s ANY
insert /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i $device -n <WAVELAN RG SERIAL NO>
insert /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i $device -k <ENCRYPTION KEY> -v 1
insert /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i $device -T 1
insert /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i $device -e 1
insert /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i $device -p 1
insert /etc/pccard_ether $device start
remove /etc/pccard_ether $device stop
friend also has a wireless lan but uses an access point and this is how I
configure the pccard.conf file when I go round to his place
card "Lucent Technologies" "WaveLAN/IEEE"
config 0x1 "wi" ?
insert /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i $device -s "Dribble"
insert /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i $device -n ""
insert /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i $device -p 1
insert /etc/pccard_ether $device start
remove /etc/pccard_ether $device stop
so I have three distinct configs that I want to run with depending on where I
am.
Work:- static IP address, work DNS, work default route, work domain name
Home:- Dhcp configured + home wavelan setup
Friend:- Dhcp Configured + Friend wavelan setup
Therefore I want to be able to configure the wavelan depentant on which slot I
stick it in, and a futher confguration for work with a totally diferent NIC.
But it would appear that I can only have one network interface defined in
rc.conf.
Hope this clarifies the situation.
David Dooley
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