Re: useful laptop specific apps?

[Michael Perry <mperry@tsoft.com>]

Quoting Keith Geffert on Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 11:44:34PM -0400:
> Noah,
> 
> Well I use some utilities of my own brew. You can download "sn" from
> http://www.penguingurus.com/projects/  This acts like su, or sg except for
> networks.  You can "sn home" or, "sn work" and change networks on the fly
> without having to eject cards or anything like that.  It will support as many
> profiles as you care to handle and should handle dhcp and stuff fine.  I migrate
> between 3 to 4 networks per day with my laptop.
> 
> Keith
> 
> 
> Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> 
> > life easier.  I've installed things like wmbattery to monitor battery
> > status and stuff.  Is there more than that?  Since the machine is
> > mobile it will be moving between networks often (sometimes with dhcp,
> > sometimes with static addresses).  What do you folks find helpful in
> > this situation?
> 
> 
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These are great pointers for pcmcia services switching.  I have a Latitude
Ls laptop running 2.2 which has a 3com 905c card integrated and I use dhcp
at work with it.  When I boot the laptop I get the dhcp timeout since it is
actively looking for a network address for eth0.  Is there a way to bypass
this timeout or to switch using perhaps a scheme in lilo?  If I did not load
the network setting which had support for eth0 when on the road that would
be okay too.  I used appends in lilo before for home and network settings
with pcmcia cards.

Thanks for the great pointers on the laptop apps.

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Michael Perry		
mperry@tsoft.com
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