Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 09:10:01 -0700 From: Ben Lovett <blovett@bsdguru.com> To: Paul Schenkeveld <paul@psconsult.nl> Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: on-board ethernet and mobility Message-ID: <20020421161001.GB16636@bsdguru.com> In-Reply-To: <20020421114601.A291@psconsult.nl> References: <20020421114601.A291@psconsult.nl>
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Paul, Try PCSite. It originally was designed for a mobile system with just PCCards, but has evolved so that it supports mini-pci cards like your on-board 3Com. It is available from: http://www.sdbug.org/download.php?op=getit&lid=1 Hope it helps! -ben I believe Paul Schenkeveld (paul@psconsult.nl) scribbled this: > 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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