From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Apr 21 9:10:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from the.oneinsane.net (the.oneinsane.net [66.42.61.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2997A37B421 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 09:10:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from moria.bsdguru.com (gandalf.bsdguru.com [207.113.133.12]) by the.oneinsane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C837C15506; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 09:10:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by moria.bsdguru.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5847DA0E; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 09:10:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 09:10:01 -0700 From: Ben Lovett To: Paul Schenkeveld Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: on-board ethernet and mobility Message-ID: <20020421161001.GB16636@bsdguru.com> Mail-Followup-To: Ben Lovett , Paul Schenkeveld , mobile@freebsd.org References: <20020421114601.A291@psconsult.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020421114601.A291@psconsult.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Moon: The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (63% of Full) X-GPG-Key: http://www.bsdguru.com/~blovett/blovett.pgp X-GPG-Fingerprint: C75F A722 1518 03B8 26C3 77A1 7C76 8AFA EBAB 2004 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD moria 4.5-STABLE-20020318 X-Uptime: 9:07AM up 4:20, 4 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 (paul@psconsult.nl) 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message