My biggest concern is that I wonder if the PC card ethernet port will hang
at home with no network cable attached and no DHCP server responding to it.
Any idea if this will be a problem?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Fedyk" <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: <debian-laptop@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 9:37 PM
Subject: Re: hardware profiles?
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 09:30:11PM -0400, Matt Pepper wrote:
Hi -
I have a Dell laptop I am endeavoring to put Debian on however I have a
query I'd like to get answered first. Does anyone know if there is a way
of
handling multiple hardware profiles in Debian similar to the concept
within
Windows? I ask because when I am at home I have the laptop docked which
means not only the PCMCIA ethernet port is present but also an ethernet
card
within the port replicator is present. When I am at work only the PCMCIA
ethernet port is available. Does anyone see any problem with this? Any
way
to handle the two configurations gracefully?
I can think of one if you like kernel modules:
Note: I don't know pcmcia-cs
Write a script that switches the /etc/modules files based on detecting the
docking port from whatever /proc file shows it. It really won't hurt
anything to have both loaded... Do you want to change other things based
on
being un/docked? Do you use dhcp in both instances, what exactly do you
want to change based on the hardware available. In your example, you'll
have ethernet on both...
Mike
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