From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Apr 21 2:46: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from pop3.psconsult.nl (ps226.psconsult.nl [193.67.147.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDFF437B41E for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 02:46:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from paul@localhost) by pop3.psconsult.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) id LAA00370 for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 11:46:02 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from paul) Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 11:46:01 +0200 From: Paul Schenkeveld To: FreeBSD Mobile Subject: on-board ethernet and mobility Message-ID: <20020421114601.A291@psconsult.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i 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 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