From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 16 12:43:27 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 DD28016A41C for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 12:43:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Alex.Kovalenko@verizon.net) Received: from vms048pub.verizon.net (vms048pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.48]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8FC843D1D for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 12:43:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Alex.Kovalenko@verizon.net) Received: from RabbitsDen ([70.18.160.160]) by vms048.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2 HotFix 0.04 (built Dec 24 2004)) with ESMTPA id <0II600F9CGOEDOQ1@vms048.mailsrvcs.net> for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 07:43:27 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 08:43:08 -0400 From: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" In-reply-to: <1118884355.15912.1.camel@rushlight.kf8nh.com> To: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" Message-id: <1118925788.1605.5.camel@RabbitsDen> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Boundary_(ID_a4pBtXkV1pbzcLp01aotig)" References: <20050615233342.GA23884@thought.org> <20050615233729.GQ29181@wantadilla.lemis.com> <1118884355.15912.1.camel@rushlight.kf8nh.com> X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 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 12:43:28 -0000 --Boundary_(ID_a4pBtXkV1pbzcLp01aotig) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-5 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT 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. -- Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко) --Boundary_(ID_a4pBtXkV1pbzcLp01aotig)--