Re: Netgear MA401 16-bit PCMCIA wifi card and FC3

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Author: Gerard Snitselaar
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: Netgear MA401 16-bit PCMCIA wifi card and FC3
Yes that is correct, I was just answering based on normal FC naming
convention.

I have profiles set up for home, work, my girlfriend's network, a
general public one, and one for tmobile hotspot.


On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 01:16:16AM -0700, Kevin Brown wrote:
> I would just like to point out that this answer is inaccurate. The file
> doesn't HAVE to be called ifcfg-eth1. It DOES have to start with ifcfg-
> and what it ends with is what ifup is told to start.
>
> e.g. create a file called ifcfg-home
> do ifup home and you will see that it uses ifcfg-home to bring the device
> up.
>
> What tells ifup and ifdown what device to actually bring up or down is the
> DEVICE= line in the file.
>
> So, you could create configurations for your various network devices based
> on profiles and have the device reconfigured for that profile.
>
> E.g. one for home, one for work, one for school, and one for on the road.
>
> >Yes, you would need one named ifcfg-eth1 for device eth1.
>
> >>[mikeaz_laptop@localhost ~]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
> >>cat: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1: No such file or directory
> >>[mikeaz_laptop@localhost ~]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
> >>DEVICE=eth0
> >>BOOTPROTO=dhcp
> >>ONBOOT=yes
> >>TYPE=Ethernet
> >>[mikeaz_laptop@localhost ~]$
> >>
> >>I'm guessing that since this is set to be eth0 I need to make an
> >>identical one named ifcg-eth1.
> >>
> >>because it always seems to be eth1 for my wifi card.
> >>
> >>any ideas?
>
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