On 27 Dec 2002, Jeff Bearer wrote: > I have a laptop, a wired network card that takes up both pcmcia slots > and a wireless network card. I'm trying to figure out how to set these > up as seamlessly as possible. I can't have them both installed at the > same time because they won't fit, and when I take one out and put in the > other, linux has an idenity crisis. > > I'm setting this up using the RH8 network control panel which may be > part of my problem. I'm trying to use this because I want to set up > different network profiles. > > The problem is that it always thinks that the card that is installed is > supposed to be eth0. but the two cards use different kernel modules and > the entry in /etc/modules.conf says that eth0 uses the module for > whatever card I have installed last. > > Can I modify the configuration so it will know to load the proper kernel > module and not have one hard coded into modules.conf? Or can I > configure pcmcia so that when the wired net card is removed and the > wireless card is installed to make it eth1?
I wonder if this reference may be of help? Pardon the word wrap. http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/custom-guide/s1-network-profiles.html -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
