Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 15:39:04 -0600 From: Eric F Crist <ecrist@adtechintegrated.com> To: Dru <dlavigne6@sympatico.ca>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: laptop hardware profile Message-ID: <200401021539.04321.ecrist@adtechintegrated.com> In-Reply-To: <20040102150315.B616@genisis.domain.org> References: <20040102150315.B616@genisis.domain.org>
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On Friday 02 January 2004 02:06 pm, Dru wrote: > Is anyone aware of a tutorial/documentation available for creating a > hardware profile? I'm thinking of something that allows the user to > choose to either configure a wireless or a wired NIC during bootup. I > could script it after bootup, but I'd prefer to do it during loader. > FWIW, I have a wired NIC and a wifi NIC. The wifi doesn't attempt to do DHCP unless it's plugged in. The wired NIC is integrated, so it always tries to look and if there's a connection, it works, if not, obviously no. If you're using PCMCIA wifi/wired NICs this is pretty trivial to accomplish. It's simply the lines: pccard_enable="YES" pccard_ifconfig="DHCP" Put these in your rc.conf file. For more options see man rc.conf. HTH -- Eric F Crist AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc (612) 998-3588
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