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Date:      Thu, 16 Jun 2005 08:43:08 -0400
From:      "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <Alex.Kovalenko@verizon.net>
To:        "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: can I use wireless & wired cards together?
Message-ID:  <1118925788.1605.5.camel@RabbitsDen>
In-Reply-To: <1118884355.15912.1.camel@rushlight.kf8nh.com>
References:  <20050615233342.GA23884@thought.org> <20050615233729.GQ29181@wantadilla.lemis.com> <1118884355.15912.1.camel@rushlight.kf8nh.com>

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On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 21:12 -0400, 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 would suspect that building your wireless driver as the module and
loading/unloading it is necessary will do the trick. I have attached
script which I successfully use on variety of laptops, including my
T42p.

Script is based on the one cited in BSD Hacks book from O'Reily with
some minor improvements.

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Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко)

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