Re: hardware profiles?
Well, even if you don't have a way of easily automatically starting a script
when you dock/undock, you could just run said script manually. Better than
rebooting at any rate.
- Kevin.
From: "b3" <b3@b4k4.net>
To: <debian-laptop@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 12:50 AM
Subject: Re: hardware profiles?
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:23:51AM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately this only works if i REBOOT (shock, horror) when docking.
> >
> > Does anybody out there have any ideas of how I can maintain my up-time
and
> > *still* dock/undock to my hearts content?
>
> That depends...does docking produce a system event of some kind that could
> be scripted to change over from one set of networking params to another?
If
> so, I would think it would be possible to have the event trigger a script
> which:
>
> o brings down your pcmcia network (if necessary)
> o loads the proper module for your dock's ethernet
> o brings up the dock's ethernet connection
>
> (yes, I know that's probably oversimplifying things - I don't have a
docking
> station for my vaio yet, so I'm sortof flying blind here - hopefully this
> suggestion might get things moving in the right direction)
>
> -b3
>
>
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