Re: Wireless and 2.6 status ?
On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 01:36, Xavier Maillard wrote:
>
> >> Maybe you can send to me either your /etc/pcmcia/config.opts and tell
> >> me how you did configure you WIFI card (using /etc/network/interfaces
> >> or using the built-in /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts ?).
> >
> > I use whereami (I wrote it). Essentially this uses
> > /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts, but these have not changed for me to go
> > from
> > 2.4.23 -> 2.6.0.
>
> whereami ? What's that ? If you use Debian and wireless-tools you
> should use /etc/network/interfaces file no ? Can you tell me more about
> whereami and how to use it then ?
Whereami is used to have the laptop automatically detect where it is,
and reconfigure itself to suit that location. There are a few other
packages that also try and do this also, but naturally I use my own :-)
My detection goes something like this:
- If we are connected to a wired network
- If we can get a DHCP address
- Figure out which location we are at based on the address
- Else
- Do other things (ping, arping, ...) to figure the location
- ElseIf we have wireless devices plugged in
- Loop through our wireless networks and see if any work
- Else
- We are at the "no location" location.
And then various actions happen depending on which location I was at,
and which location I am at now.
All a gross oversimplification, of course.
Cheers,
Andrew.
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