New Dell laptop dificulties

Very cool info, thanks a million.

Weird thing is that I did muck about with modules.conf and the wireless card
*still* came up as eth0.
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Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT
Cameron Technical Services, Inc.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig White" <craigwhite@azapple.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 6:28 PM
Subject: Re: New Dell laptop dificulties


> On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 13:49, Charlie Bullen wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> ----
> /etc/modules.conf
>
> alias eth0 whatever_driver_broadcom_uses
> alias eth1 orinoco_cs (or whatever your prism II driver uses)
>
> depmod -ae
>
> swap /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 & ifcfg-eth1
>
> - to make the WEP happen...
>
> iwconfig -essid "Wireless_network" key "9999-9999-9999-9999-9999" or
> better yet...put the appropriate items in /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts
>
> Craig
>
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