From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 16 01:40:33 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48C5316A41C for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 01:40:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh1.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08A4443D48 for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 01:40:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [192.168.42.23] (andersonbox3.centtech.com [192.168.42.23]) by mh1.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j5G1eURq011812; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 20:40:30 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <42B0D870.2040705@centtech.com> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 20:40:00 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050603 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" References: <20050615233342.GA23884@thought.org> <20050615233729.GQ29181@wantadilla.lemis.com> <1118884355.15912.1.camel@rushlight.kf8nh.com> In-Reply-To: <1118884355.15912.1.camel@rushlight.kf8nh.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.82/941/Wed Jun 15 13:13:38 2005 on mh1.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can I use wireless & wired cards together? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 01:40:33 -0000 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------