Re: Mobile network configuration
You may want to take a look at the laptop-net package
that's available from MIT at
http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/projects/omnibook. It may
get you closer to what you want.
David Z Maze wrote:
>
> I have a fairly new laptop running Debian unstable. It has on-board
> MiniPCI 802.11 wireless (yay!). I'm using kernel 2.4.12, with the
> driver modules from the pcmcia-source package (specifically, the
> wvlan_cs module).
>
> What I'd like to do is have the laptop automatically detect the local
> network and configure itself appropriately at boot time. In
> particular:
>
> -- If I'm at home, use a known static IP address.
> -- If I'm at work, use one set of access points preferentially over
> another, and get an address via DHCP.
> -- Otherwise, use any access point that's available and get an address
> via DHCP.
>
> I'm assuming there's some way I can test based on access-point name to
> determine "at work" vs. "at home" vs. "none of the above". (iwconfig
> does give different ESSID names.)
>
> So, questions:
>
> (1) How do I set this up? It looks like there's no easy way to do
> this using the pcmcia infrastructure. The ifupdown stuff in
> unstable looks like it can pick a network configuration based on
> some script, but the only documentation is examples in
> /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples, which are somewhat useful but
> not completely informative. Is the best way to do it really to
> say "force the first ESSID, and if there's signal, use it, else
> repeat?"
>
> (2) Where do I start services (zhm, ntp, possibly others) that should
> only be started when the network is up? pcmcia stuff suggests
> adding it to start_fn in /etc/pcmcia/network.opts, but this won't
> scale well, particularly if I need to add the same things to
> start_fn in three different places. I thought I saw a hint
> somewhere that symlinking init scripts into /etc/network/if-up.d
> would DWIW.
>
> (3) Is all of this documented somewhere, and I just missed it? (The
> Wireless-HOWTO is really hard to read and talks a lot about
> network setups from the AP end, which I really don't care about.)
>
> Right now I'm doing this using 'cardctl scheme ...', which works but
> isn't as automated as I'd like. It'd be nice if the PCMCIA scripts
> gave me more support, but the things you can configure on (scheme,
> slot, driver, MAC address) are mostly fixed, so this really isn't a
> useful set of configuration options.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> David Maze dmaze@debian.org http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/
> "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal."
> -- Abra Mitchell
>
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Ciao,
al
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