Re: Current recommended automatic laptop network configuration tools?

2014-11-09 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 09.11.14 14:18, Marcos Alano wrote: I use Ubuntu and I love Network Manager. I can set multiple profiles for wired connections and more profiles for wireless connections. I can set multiple profiles with different static IPs for each one. It is wonderful. May be you should try. while this is

Re: Current recommended automatic laptop network configuration tools?

2014-11-09 Thread Marcos Alano
I use Ubuntu and I love Network Manager. I can set multiple profiles for wired connections and more profiles for wireless connections. I can set multiple profiles with different static IPs for each one. It is wonderful. May be you should try. Kind Regards, Marcos 2014-11-05 20:27 GMT-02:00 Michae

Re: Current recommended automatic laptop network configuration tools?

2014-11-05 Thread Michael Tria
I have a fondness for wired connections whenever possible. I think it makes a network faster, and more secure. Additionally there are almost always one or more dead spots in a home. This can be easily and cheaply resolved at work, but I am not sure how a home net-worker would take it. I also prefe

Re: Current recommended automatic laptop network configuration tools?

2014-11-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Brian Flaherty wrote: > Like many, I have a laptop that I use in multiple settings: > - home wired > - home wireless > - work wired > - work wireless > - roaming around (hotels, coffee shops, airports etc.) Me too. > Right now, I used wicd, but I get different IPs at home whether I'm on wired > o

Re: Current recommended automatic laptop network configuration tools?

2014-10-31 Thread Florian Reitmeir
Hi, On 10/31/2014 05:59 AM, Brian Flaherty wrote: > Like many, I have a laptop that I use in multiple settings: > - home wired > - home wireless > - work wired > - work wireless > - roaming around (hotels, coffee shops, airports etc.) > > Right now, I used wicd, but I get different IPs at home wh

Re: Current recommended automatic laptop network configuration tools?

2014-10-30 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 30 Oct 2014, Brian Flaherty wrote: > Like many, I have a laptop that I use in multiple settings: > - home wired > - home wireless > - work wired > - work wireless > - roaming around (hotels, coffee shops, airports etc.) > > Right now, I used wicd, but I get different IPs at home whether I'

Re: Current recommended automatic laptop network configuration tools?

2014-10-30 Thread Ivan T. Ivanov
On Thu, 2014-10-30 at 21:59 -0700, Brian Flaherty wrote: > Hello, > > Like many, I have a laptop that I use in multiple settings: > - home wired > - home wireless > - work wired > - work wireless > - roaming around (hotels, coffee shops, airports etc.) > > Right now, I used wicd, but I get diffe

Current recommended automatic laptop network configuration tools?

2014-10-30 Thread Brian Flaherty
Hello, Like many, I have a laptop that I use in multiple settings: - home wired - home wireless - work wired - work wireless - roaming around (hotels, coffee shops, airports etc.) Right now, I used wicd, but I get different IPs at home whether I'm on wired or wireless. I'd like to set a static

Re: Network Configuration

2006-02-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
ny here in Brazil, but the ping command seemed to try > and try without success, because all the packages it sent were lost. > It's the first time I'm working with Debian and on Slackware, which is > installed in the other machines, I have no problems accessing any web > site. The n

Re: Network Configuration

2006-02-09 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:04:01 -0200 Henrique RennĂ³ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everybody!!! > > I know it's not a question concerning laptops but I've just installed > debian Sarge 3.1 in my laptop Acer Aspire 3002LCI and I'm not able to > connect to any

Network Configuration

2006-02-09 Thread Henrique RennĂ³
Hello everybody!!! I know it's not a question concerning laptops but I've just installed debian Sarge 3.1 in my laptop Acer Aspire 3002LCI and I'm not able to connect to any web site. The network configuration is fine because I can ping any machines in the network and the ho

laptop network configuration

2003-04-24 Thread matt zagrabelny
hello all, i am trying to get my laptop's network configured using the ping-places.sh script in /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples/ping-places.sh here is what my /etc/network/interfaces file looks like: auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 mapping eth0 script /usr/local/sbin/ping-places.s

ifupdown-roaming -- automatic network configuration selection for ifup

2003-01-31 Thread Thomas Hood
I have added wireless SSID detection to ifscout, the main component of ifupdown-roaming. ifupdown-roaming is a package that extends the ifupdown package so that it better supports machines that roam from one network environment to another. It is intended to be an easily configured and ifupdown-co

ifupdown-roaming -- automatic network configuration selection forifup

2003-01-31 Thread Thomas Hood
I have added wireless SSID detection to ifscout, the main component of ifupdown-roaming. ifupdown-roaming is a package that extends the ifupdown package so that it better supports machines that roam from one network environment to another. It is intended to be an easily configured and ifupdown-co

Fwd: Re: Network configuration problems with laptop

2002-09-12 Thread complaw
orwarded Message: > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: "Ronald L. Chichester" (Remove Blanks) > Subject: Re: Network configuration problems with laptop > Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 06:02:23 -0500 > - > I checked /proc/modules. There were entries for the module in question > (s

Network configuration tools (was Re: netenv)

2002-07-21 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > anyone have luck setting this up. I get it to run at boot, but it will > never change my network settings. I've tried it on 2 different > machines and gotten the same results. > > any clues, I don't know much about netenv as, having looked at it a w

Re: Mobile network configuration

2001-10-31 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2001-11-01 at 02:02, 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 d

Re: Mobile network configuration

2001-10-31 Thread David Z Maze
Andy Bastien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AB> If you don't have enough options already, you can try the ifup/ifdown AB> stuff that comes with debian. Do a "man interfaces" to find out about AB> how to set up the mappings for multiple configurations of a single AB> interface I was looking at that,

Re: Mobile network configuration

2001-10-31 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2001-11-01 at 02:02, 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

Re: Mobile network configuration

2001-10-31 Thread David Z Maze
Andy Bastien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AB> If you don't have enough options already, you can try the ifup/ifdown AB> stuff that comes with debian. Do a "man interfaces" to find out about AB> how to set up the mappings for multiple configurations of a single AB> interface I was looking at that,

Re: Mobile network configuration

2001-10-31 Thread dude
: Andy Bastien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Mobile network configuration >Resent-From: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > >On Wed, 2001-10-31 at 08:02, David Z Maze wrote: >> I have a fairly new laptop running Debian unstable. It has on

Re: Mobile network configuration

2001-10-31 Thread Andy Bastien
" 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

Re: Mobile network configuration

2001-10-31 Thread Al Stone
s 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/ex

Re: Mobile network configuration

2001-10-31 Thread Chris Halls
And there's yet another one: whereami. It differs from the other packages in that laptop-netconf requires you to manually choose a location on bootup, intuitively does detection by looking for responses to ARP requests and whereami runs through a set of tests in a directory, which can do the detec

Re: Mobile network configuration

2001-10-31 Thread David Roundy
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 02:24:03PM +0100, Andy Toenz wrote: > On Wednesday, 31. October 2001 14.02, David Z Maze wrote: > > What I'd like to do is have the laptop automatically detect the local > > network and configure itself appropriately at boot time. In > > particular: > > try laptop-netconf

Re: Mobile network configuration

2001-10-31 Thread dude
: Andy Bastien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Mobile network configuration >Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >On Wed, 2001-10-31 at 08:02, David Z Maze wrote: >> I have a fairly new laptop running Debian unstable. It has on-board >> MiniPCI 80

Re: Mobile network configuration

2001-10-31 Thread Andy Bastien
" 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

Re: Mobile network configuration

2001-10-31 Thread Al Stone
t 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/ex

Re: Mobile network configuration

2001-10-31 Thread Chris Halls
And there's yet another one: whereami. It differs from the other packages in that laptop-netconf requires you to manually choose a location on bootup, intuitively does detection by looking for responses to ARP requests and whereami runs through a set of tests in a directory, which can do the dete

Re: Mobile network configuration

2001-10-31 Thread Andy Toenz
On Wednesday, 31. October 2001 14.02, David Z Maze wrote: > What I'd like to do is have the laptop automatically detect the local > network and configure itself appropriately at boot time. In > particular: try laptop-netconf (available as deb-packet) ! perhaps what you're seeking... "laptop-netc

Mobile network configuration

2001-10-31 Thread David Z Maze
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 b

Re: Mobile network configuration

2001-10-31 Thread David Roundy
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 02:24:03PM +0100, Andy Toenz wrote: > On Wednesday, 31. October 2001 14.02, David Z Maze wrote: > > What I'd like to do is have the laptop automatically detect the local > > network and configure itself appropriately at boot time. In > > particular: > > try laptop-netconf

Re: Mobile network configuration

2001-10-31 Thread Andy Toenz
On Wednesday, 31. October 2001 14.02, David Z Maze wrote: > What I'd like to do is have the laptop automatically detect the local > network and configure itself appropriately at boot time. In > particular: try laptop-netconf (available as deb-packet) ! perhaps what you're seeking... "laptop-net

Mobile network configuration

2001-10-31 Thread David Z Maze
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 b

Re: PCMCIA network configuration

2001-04-29 Thread Andreas Tscharner
> Hi, Hello, > > I have a 3com 574 pcmcia networking card that works just fine under linux > > 2.2x and linux 2.4x. > > my only problem is that if when I insert my networking card into my > computer, > something automatically configures it with networking information (such > as > defualt gate

Re: PCMCIA network configuration

2001-04-29 Thread Andreas Tscharner
> Hi, Hello, > > I have a 3com 574 pcmcia networking card that works just fine under linux > > 2.2x and linux 2.4x. > > my only problem is that if when I insert my networking card into my > computer, > something automatically configures it with networking information (such > as > defualt gat

PCMCIA network configuration

2001-04-29 Thread Sunny Dubey
Hi, I have a 3com 574 pcmcia networking card that works just fine under linux 2.2x and linux 2.4x. my only problem is that if when I insert my networking card into my computer, something automatically configures it with networking information (such as defualt gateway, DNS, IP, etc). This is f

PCMCIA network configuration

2001-04-29 Thread Sunny Dubey
Hi, I have a 3com 574 pcmcia networking card that works just fine under linux 2.2x and linux 2.4x. my only problem is that if when I insert my networking card into my computer, something automatically configures it with networking information (such as defualt gateway, DNS, IP, etc). This is

Re: Network configuration conflicts with PCMCIA ethernet card

2001-03-05 Thread Mikael Hedin
Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem is probably related to your having your default gateway set to > the local address, and therefore there being no route from the local address > to the new ppp address. But on a local network, you should have no gateway! I'm not shure where it

Re: Network configuration conflicts with PCMCIA ethernet card

2001-03-05 Thread Mikael Hedin
Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem is probably related to your having your default gateway set to > the local address, and therefore there being no route from the local address > to the new ppp address. But on a local network, you should have no gateway! I'm not shure where i

Re: Network configuration conflicts with PCMCIA ethernet card

2001-03-04 Thread Carlos Menezes
Jacob Meuser wrote: > On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 02:46:05PM -0300, Carlos Menezes wrote: > > Please, > > > > Could someone give me suggestions? I've had some problems when my PCMCIA > > ethernet card is on and I try to connect to my ISP by modem (ppp). I get > > messages like 'Network is unreach

Re: Network configuration conflicts with PCMCIA ethernet card

2001-03-04 Thread Carlos Menezes
Jacob Meuser wrote: > On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 02:46:05PM -0300, Carlos Menezes wrote: > > Please, > > > > Could someone give me suggestions? I've had some problems when my PCMCIA ethernet >card is on and I try to connect to my ISP by modem (ppp). I get messages like >'Network is unreachable'

Re: Network configuration conflicts with PCMCIA ethernet card

2001-03-03 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 02:46:05PM -0300, Carlos Menezes wrote: > Please, > > Could someone give me suggestions? I've had some problems when my PCMCIA ethernet card is on and I try to connect to my ISP by modem (ppp). I get messages like 'Network is unreachable'. My /etc/pcmcia/network.opts file

Re: Network configuration conflicts with PCMCIA ethernet card

2001-03-03 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 02:46:05PM -0300, Carlos Menezes wrote: > Please, > > Could someone give me suggestions? I've had some problems when my PCMCIA ethernet card is on and I try to connect to my ISP by modem (ppp). I get messages like 'Network is unreachable'. My /etc/pcmcia/network.opts file

Network configuration conflicts with PCMCIA ethernet card

2001-03-03 Thread Carlos Menezes
Please, Could someone give me suggestions? I've had some problems when my PCMCIA ethernet card is on and I try to connect to my ISP by modem (ppp). I get messages like 'Network is unreachable'. My /etc/pcmcia/network.opts file set local IP to 10.0.0.2 and I know that pppd assigns a dynamic IP

Network configuration conflicts with PCMCIA ethernet card

2001-03-03 Thread Carlos Menezes
Please, Could someone give me suggestions? I've had some problems when my PCMCIA ethernet card is on and I try to connect to my ISP by modem (ppp). I get messages like 'Network is unreachable'. My /etc/pcmcia/network.opts file set local IP to 10.0.0.2 and I know that pppd assigns a dynamic IP

Re: network configuration

2001-01-02 Thread Jacek M. Wuwer
Kamath, In case you haven't solved this puzzle yet - Looks like you have one regular port - ttyS00 (COM1) and ttyS02 (COM3) detected by the cardmgr probe. It looks like for some reason the probe couldn't assign ttyS1 to your card. One reason for that is that your /etc/serial.conf explicitly alloc

Re: network configuration

2001-01-02 Thread Jacek M. Wuwer
Kamath, In case you haven't solved this puzzle yet - Looks like you have one regular port - ttyS00 (COM1) and ttyS02 (COM3) detected by the cardmgr probe. It looks like for some reason the probe couldn't assign ttyS1 to your card. One reason for that is that your /etc/serial.conf explicitly allo

Re: network configuration

2001-01-01 Thread G. L. `Griz' Inabnit
Myself, I'd use minicom and play. It looks as though something is kicking on ttyS00 and ttyS02, so I'd check those first. A simple ATZ sent via minicom will give you an OK or just ignore ya (no modem there). If yer ignored, try the next one! :--) Then, as "The Star" advised, use a good

Re: network configuration

2001-01-01 Thread G. L. `Griz' Inabnit
Myself, I'd use minicom and play. It looks as though something is kicking on ttyS00 and ttyS02, so I'd check those first. A simple ATZ sent via minicom will give you an OK or just ignore ya (no modem there). If yer ignored, try the next one! :--) Then, as "The Star" advised, use a goo

Re: network configuration

2000-12-31 Thread Thomas Vogels
Kamath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > do I have to set-up any COM ports etc on which the modem is > communicating ??or do I have to do any more configurations other than what > the install script/program has done to configure PCMCIA > dial-up(dial-out)??? 1) You don't have to setup the "COM" p

Re: network configuration

2000-12-31 Thread Kamath
i used dmesg .. amongst the messages are Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A then again under the Intel PCIC probe is the message ttyS02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A ... Registered device ppp0 then when i run wvdial i get the

Re: network configuration

2000-12-31 Thread Heather
> thanks for the overwhelming response!! i am out of the university where > they had the ethernet NIS etc ..but i learnt a lot over the week than over > the past week there!! . and now I am facing problems with PCMCIA > PPP)dial-up protocol).. when I try vwdial(or wvdial) i get an error saying > t

Re: network configuration

2000-12-31 Thread Thomas Vogels
Kamath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > do I have to set-up any COM ports etc on which the modem is > communicating ??or do I have to do any more configurations other than what > the install script/program has done to configure PCMCIA > dial-up(dial-out)??? 1) You don't have to setup the "COM"

Re: network configuration

2000-12-31 Thread Kamath
i used dmesg .. amongst the messages are Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A then again under the Intel PCIC probe is the message ttyS02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A ... Registered device ppp0 then when i run wvdial i get th

Re: network configuration

2000-12-31 Thread Heather
> thanks for the overwhelming response!! i am out of the university where > they had the ethernet NIS etc ..but i learnt a lot over the week than over > the past week there!! . and now I am facing problems with PCMCIA > PPP)dial-up protocol).. when I try vwdial(or wvdial) i get an error saying >

Re: network configuration

2000-12-31 Thread Kamath
thanks for the overwhelming response!! i am out of the university where they had the ethernet NIS etc ..but i learnt a lot over the week than over the past week there!! . and now I am facing problems with PCMCIA PPP)dial-up protocol).. when I try vwdial(or wvdial) i get an error saying that there

Re: network configuration

2000-12-31 Thread Kamath
thanks for the overwhelming response!! i am out of the university where they had the ethernet NIS etc ..but i learnt a lot over the week than over the past week there!! . and now I am facing problems with PCMCIA PPP)dial-up protocol).. when I try vwdial(or wvdial) i get an error saying that there

Re: network configuration

2000-12-26 Thread Heather
> Hi all-- > > which is the file on Linux that I have to change so that the machine > recognises the sub-net's DNS server, gateway. NIS server etc on linux?? is > it the /etc/hosts file and the /etc/networks file?? > > any info on this?? dns servers are listed in /etc/resolv.conf NIS servers a

Re: network configuration

2000-12-26 Thread m.nine.six
Kamath wrote: > > Hi all-- > > which is the file on Linux that I have to change so that the machine > recognises the sub-net's DNS server, gateway. NIS server etc on linux?? is > it the /etc/hosts file and the /etc/networks file?? /etc/networks if you have a pci or isa card for dns and subnet s

network configuration

2000-12-26 Thread Kamath
Hi all-- which is the file on Linux that I have to change so that the machine recognises the sub-net's DNS server, gateway. NIS server etc on linux?? is it the /etc/hosts file and the /etc/networks file?? any info on this?? it looks like my machine is not able to connect to the network. and the

Re: network configuration

2000-12-26 Thread Heather
> Hi all-- > > which is the file on Linux that I have to change so that the machine > recognises the sub-net's DNS server, gateway. NIS server etc on linux?? is > it the /etc/hosts file and the /etc/networks file?? > > any info on this?? dns servers are listed in /etc/resolv.conf NIS servers

Re: network configuration

2000-12-26 Thread m.nine.six
Kamath wrote: > > Hi all-- > > which is the file on Linux that I have to change so that the machine > recognises the sub-net's DNS server, gateway. NIS server etc on linux?? is > it the /etc/hosts file and the /etc/networks file?? /etc/networks if you have a pci or isa card for dns and subnet

network configuration

2000-12-26 Thread Kamath
Hi all-- which is the file on Linux that I have to change so that the machine recognises the sub-net's DNS server, gateway. NIS server etc on linux?? is it the /etc/hosts file and the /etc/networks file?? any info on this?? it looks like my machine is not able to connect to the network. and the