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From: "Charlie Bullen" <
mandrake@mindspring.com>
To: <
plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 3:49 PM
Subject: New Dell laptop dificulties
> I have a new Dell Inspiron 1100. The first thing I did was wipe the
> harddrive so I could start with a clean slate. Due to work
> considerations I have to use windows XP for certain things, so I now
> have a dual boot with XP and Redhat 9.0.
>
> On the linux side I am having a few networking problems. The box came
> with a broadcom 440X nic, which is unsupported by Redhat out of the box
> and I also use a Linksys WPC11 wireless card, which is supported by
> Redhat out of the box.
>
> I downloaded and installed the drivers for the broadcom installed then
> and that works fine. I also configured the wireless card and it works
> fine, except that I can't get it to work in encrypted mode yet(probably
> my typing of the key).
>
> With the wireless card in place, it is ETH0 and the broadcom is ETH1.
> The problem arises when I boot into Linux when the wireless card is not
> inserted, which is the case when I am at a remote site. Then the
> broadcom is recognized as ETH0 and it tries to use the orinoco prism
> driver from the wireless card. And I then have no connectivity at all.
>
> What I want to happen is, I think, to have the broadcom designated as
> ETH0 using the driver I install, but not have ETH0 activated at boot and
> have the wireless designated as ETH1 and activated at boot when it is
> present.
>
> Any ideas how to accomplish this?
>
> Charlie
I have an Inspiron 5100 with onboard wireless and the Broadcom. I fought
for about 2 hours trying to get it to work with the Broadcom on eth0. I
made changes to /etc/modules.conf, explicitly aliasing the Broadcom to eth0
and it still did not do it. I have not tried moving the pcmcia services to
start after networking services - I think that might cause the Broadcom to
come up first and become eth0.
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Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT
Cameron Technical Services, Inc.
http://www.camerontech.com/
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