Re: laptop and different networks

2005-05-17 Thread Daniel Déchelotte
Thomas Hood a écrit : | [Your remarks about laptop-net, divine, waproamd and wpa-supplicant.] Thanks, I will update the relevant sections. | In guessnet, s/inconveniens/inconvenience/. Ah ha! Correcting it again... | If you used other online documents as sources when you wrote your page | then

Re: laptop and different networks

2005-05-16 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Johan Brannlund_, on 13/05/05 04:44,typed: > On Thu, 12 May 2005 18:50:07 +0200, H. S. wrote: > > >>Hi, > > > Hi. > > >>I am supposed to configure a laptop so that is can be connected to a >>CAT5 cable on either a home LAN or a university LAN. Currently, the >>laptop is configure

Re: laptop and different networks

2005-05-16 Thread Thomas Hood
On Fri, 13 May 2005 12:00:27 +0200, Daniel Déchelotte wrote: > If you have troubles or solutions not list there, I would be glad to update > the page. Please note that there _is_ documentation for the laptop-net package and rather good documentation at that. It is located in the laptop-net-doc pac

Re: laptop and different networks

2005-05-14 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Daniel Déchelotte_, on 13/05/05 05:34,typed: > Hi, > > H. S. a écrit : > > | I am supposed to configure a laptop so that is can be connected to a > | CAT5 cable on either a home LAN or a university LAN. [...] > | What options do I have to solve this problem (ifplugd, guessnet, etc)?

Re: laptop and different networks

2005-05-14 Thread Daniel Déchelotte
Kamaraju Kusumanchi a écrit : | Daniel Déchelotte wrote: | > H. S. a écrit : | > | > | I am supposed to configure a laptop so that is can be connected to a | > | CAT5 cable on either a home LAN or a university LAN. [...] | > | What options do I have to solve this problem (ifplugd, guessnet, | > |

Re: laptop and different networks

2005-05-13 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Daniel Déchelotte wrote: Hi, H. S. a écrit : | I am supposed to configure a laptop so that is can be connected to a | CAT5 cable on either a home LAN or a university LAN. [...] | What options do I have to solve this problem (ifplugd, guessnet, etc)? This is exactly what this review[1] attempts to c

Re: laptop and different networks

2005-05-13 Thread Tim Goodaire
You should take a look at the whereami package. It's great for moving between different network profiles. Tim On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 11:34:53AM +0200, Daniel Déchelotte wrote: > Hi, > > H. S. a écrit : > > | I am supposed to configure a laptop so that is can be connected to a > | CAT5 cable o

Re: laptop and different networks

2005-05-13 Thread Daniel Déchelotte
Hi, H. S. a écrit : | I am supposed to configure a laptop so that is can be connected to a | CAT5 cable on either a home LAN or a university LAN. [...] | What options do I have to solve this problem (ifplugd, guessnet, etc)? This is exactly what this review[1] attempts to cover. If you have trou

Re: laptop and different networks

2005-05-13 Thread Johan Brannlund
On Thu, 12 May 2005 18:50:07 +0200, H. S. wrote: > Hi, Hi. > I am supposed to configure a laptop so that is can be connected to a > CAT5 cable on either a home LAN or a university LAN. Currently, the > laptop is configured as a dhcp client in the home network and has a > fixed IP address in the

Re: laptop and different networks

2005-05-12 Thread Tony Godshall
I ended up writing my own little script using iputils-arping. It can tell you if an IP address and MAC address are nearby prior to bringing up an IP address on the port. Then I used the mapping paragraph as described in 'man interfaces' According to H. S., > Hi, > > I am supposed to configure

Re: laptop and different networks

2005-05-12 Thread Bill Thompson
On Thu, 12 May 2005 12:37:54 -0400 "H. S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am supposed to configure a laptop so that is can be connected to a > CAT5 cable on either a home LAN or a university LAN. Currently, the > laptop is configured as a dhcp client in the home network and has a > fixed

Re: laptop and different networks

2005-05-12 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _H. S._, on 12/05/05 12:37,typed: > Hi, > > I am supposed to configure a laptop so that is can be connected to a > CAT5 cable on either a home LAN or a university LAN. Currently, the > laptop is configured as a dhcp client in the home network and has a > fixed IP address in the univers