Re: can I use wireless & wired cards together?
Eric Anderson <[email protected]>
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Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 09:07 +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >>The only potential problem is if you want the cards to share the same >>IP address space. That will only work if the net masks are different. > > > That's actually pretty annoying. I can't disable the onboard wireless > of my T42, so I have no choice but to use it on wireless (or > edit /etc/rc.conf, reboot, and remember to re-enable it later) when I'm > at home --- not so nice when I want to do large data transfers between > it and my desktop box. :( I wrote a quick-n-dirty shell script that looked at the link status of my ethernet card - it was connected up, then I used that, and downed the wifi card along with deleting all the ip info from it. If it was disconnected, I set up the wifi as usual. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"