automatic config of wireless when no cable is plugged

[Pål Dahle <pal.dahle@nr.no>]

Hi,

I have a Dell D600 running Debian/sid. The box is equipped with
a "3Com 11 a/b/g Wireless PC Card" in addition to the default 
"Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5702 Gigabit Ethernet"

The wireless interface runs nicely at 54Mb/s using the atheros
driver extracted from the CVS server of the madwifi project:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi/

However, I would like to have the wireless interface automatically
configured whenever the network cable is not plugged, otherwise not.

Currently, I have the ifplugd daemon installed which takes care of 
my eth0, but ifplugd does not seem to notice ath0

$ cat /etc/default/ifplugd
INTERFACES="eth0"
HOTPLUG_INTERFACES="ath0"
ARGS="-q -f -u0 -d10 -w -I"
SUSPEND_ACTION="stop"

I have googled a lot to solve this issue, but without success. This 
inclines me to think that this is very simple and that I have just 
screwed up somewhere down the line.

All comments are appreciated.

Pål

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