Re: swapping network cards

On Jul 14, 2004, at 5:41 PM, Justin Dieters wrote:

> I am trying to set up my laptop so I can easily switch out the wireless
> card with the wired card (both PCMCIA) and vice-versa. However, I am
> having trouble getting it to work right. I assume one card must be set
> up as eth0 and the other as eth1, but it seems that since only one or
> the other card is in at a time, it gets confused and thinks the
> wireless
> card is the 10/100 card and the 10/100 card is the wireless card and
> things like that. When this happens I can't get anything to work
> unless
> I delete all the configuration (using redhat-config-network) for the
> network cards and redo them from scratch using just one of the cards.
>
> Perhaps there is something I'm missing. I've tried binding the devices
> to the MAC address, but then it just complains that MAC addresses don't
> match. I've got the appropriate aliases for eth0 and eth1 in
> /etc/modules.conf.
>
> I'm hoping someone out there knows what my be the problem or what I am
> doing wrong.
>
> Thanks,
> Justin
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You might say that my idea is doing it the hard way, but it's super
expandable. Write a daemon to keep track of your hardware, or,
specifically your network cards. You're going to have to find card
specific identifiers for each card, maybe...a..mac address? When one is
plugged in, the daemon configures your system to use it, when they are
swapped, the daemon reconfigures it to the current, real time,
hardware. If you're not willing to put that much effort into it....i
have no idea...

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Received on Thu Jul 15 03:30:31 2004