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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ > "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." > -- Abra Mitchell > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ciao, al ---------------------------- Al Stone Linux Systems Operation Hewlett-Packard Company Phone: 970-898-0345 Telnet: 898-0345 Fax: 970-898-3804 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
