Re: laptop environment detection

2003-01-22 Thread Thomas Hood
> I've looked at switchconf, whereami, netenv, guessnet, intuitively, > divine, laptop-net, and laptop-netconf (are there any others). ... What is needed is a program that * triggers on events (perhaps including a timer) to do location redetection * Detects the current location * Modifies the c

Re: laptop environment detection

2002-10-15 Thread Bruce
On October 15, 2002 02:27 am, you wrote: > also sprach Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.15.0725 +0200]: > > I am really looking for a program that can figure out automatically > > whether I am using the wired or wireless adaptor in my laptop (usually to > > the same network), and make the conne

Re: laptop environment detection

2002-10-15 Thread christophe barbe
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 01:25:12AM -0400, Bruce wrote: > So, I am fiddling around with whereami to do this; check for a wire, if so > bring it up. If no wire, drop eth0 and bring up wlan0. Solves the "pump" > problem; now all I have to do is get it to find the wireless card on boot. Is your cur

RE: laptop environment detection

2002-10-14 Thread Joyce, Matthew
>So, I am fiddling around with whereami to do this; check for a wire, if so >bring it up. If no wire, drop eth0 and bring up wlan0. Solves the "pump" >problem; now all I have to do is get it to find the wireless card on boot. Can't you test the output of lspci for the wireless nic ? Just a tho

Re: laptop environment detection

2002-10-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.15.0725 +0200]: > I expect either one would work well. I tried both and ended up with whereami, > but YMMV. With whereami, I was also able to understand what was happening in > the scripts despite being fairly ignorant of such things, and was able t

Re: laptop environment detection

2002-10-14 Thread Bruce
I expect either one would work well. I tried both and ended up with whereami, but YMMV. With whereami, I was also able to understand what was happening in the scripts despite being fairly ignorant of such things, and was able to quickly customize them to my purposes. By the way, whereami also

laptop environment detection

2002-10-14 Thread martin f krafft
[the short story: if you use whereami or laptop-net for detection and configuration of your environment, please reply privately with pros and cons of either package. i will send a summary to the list. thanks.] given that i now vagabond between 11 different networks and that my numerical memory fo