> Aloha Scott, > > Mahalo for pointing me in the right direction. > I was able to lock the network admin settings into manual mode and that > worked. I was able to put both wlan and eth0 into the network/interfaces > file and can usr the ifup and ifdown to use either. I also made backup files > of the settings in the directory too. > > You have any thoughts on how I can get a cafe link to not override every > thing if I wanted to use the netbook at a Starbucks or other place with > wifi? I'm afraid that the auto config over writes the networks file if you > use it.
Aloha Al Given your depth and experience with FreeBSD and the terminal, you may find yourself comfortable with the /usr/share/doc/{relevant documents}. The Debian/Ubuntu realm have good documentation for configuring various behaviors within /etc/network/. The wpasupplicant files have good information for profiles. I know just what you are dealing with. The GUI tool has the ability to set a profile, but it never really worked well for me. This is kind of a weak area right now, and it's partly why WICD is becoming so popular. The way I handled your situation for years on my old orange ibook running debian was to create a few /etc/network/interfaces files. Then I ran a basic script like iamhome, iamatwork, iamatuh, to load the appropriate configurations for my interfaces. For you, this will work fine. > > ~Al Plant --scott _______________________________________________ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org