Re: on-board ethernet and mobility

Paul,

Try PCSite.  It originally was designed for a mobile system with just
PCCards, but has evolved so that it supports mini-pci cards like your
on-board 3Com.

It is available from: http://www.sdbug.org/download.php?op=getit&lid=1

Hope it helps!

-ben

I believe Paul Schenkeveld ([email protected]) scribbled this:
> Hi All,
> 
> I just got my Dell Inspiron 4100 last week and nearly finished
> setting it up to work like my old Toshiba Libretto.  There's
> however one issue that I might need some help with.
> 
> I used to travel around with my Libretto, sometimes connecting
> to a network using a 3Com PCMCIA card, somtimes using a Cisco
> Aironet card and sometimes not connecting at all.
> 
> My new Dell has this nice on-board 3Com 100 Mbit ethernet but
> when I enter 'ifconfig_xl0="DHCP"' in my rc.conf booting will
> stop at the point where xl0 gets configured if the on-board
> ethernet is not connected.
> 
> I've been thinking to not configure xl0 from rc.network/rc.conf
> but write my own script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d that puts dhclient
> in the background but ideally I'd like to use the on-board
> ethernet just like a PCMCIA interface: only start dhclient when
> the cable is inserted and perhaps also dismantle the xl0 based
> configuration when the cable gets disconnected.
> 
> Am I re-thinking something that already exists?
> Am I completely lost and is there a better/more standard way to
> accomplish true mobilitu with my on-board ethernet?
> Any other thoughts?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Paul Schenkeveld

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