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On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 10:28:37AM +0000, John Hunt wrote:
> I've recently been given a static IP address for our LAN here at our
> dept. at the university, this is because I was being assigned an
> address/gateway/dns via the unveristy's dhcp server which was fine,
> but recently the university's dhcp assigned gateway has been dropping
> packets etc.. and is generally a long way around to get to servers and
> other machines in my office.
>
> I use a laptop which I like to take to and from work every day. At
> home I use a wireless router which assigns addresses via DHCP. I don't
[snip]
> Ultimately, what I'd like to do is get rid of networkmanager (or find
> a version that supports static IPs etc) and just use the old non-gnome
> /etc/network/interfaces file as that seems to make the most sense to
> me. I'd also like for one interface not to intefere with the other
> when it's not in use.
>
> Does anyone use their laptop in a similar way, or know what I should
> do? I'd quite like to keep networkmanager on my system for times when
> I want to quickly access a wireless network.
As John Lewis says, /etc/network/interfaces is your friend. I
had/have such a configuration on my old laptop. Basically, you need a
script to find out where you are (mine uses "iwlist scan", and scans
through the output for wireless networks it knows about -- mine, one
of several at work, my parents'). This script can be used as a mapping
script in the interfaces file, to select one of multiple iface
stanzas.
A more sophisticated thing you can do is write a script (attached
to a hot-key, if you can do it) which can use mii-tool to detect
whether you have a cable attached to eth0. This script can then cycle
round through (no config, wireless), or (no config, wired, wireless),
depending on whether the wired network is active. When I get home
tonight, I'll dig my scripts out for you.
Hugo.
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