Re: [expert] Network Interfaces at boot time?

2002-10-12 Thread John O'Shaughnessy
I've seen the profiles -- is there any documentation on what you can do with them? Based on this, and Todd's suggestion, I guess I can try to create some boot time logic to see if the dock is present, and load (or not load) the network accordingly. It's just shame that it couldn't just fail grace

Re: [expert] Network Interfaces at boot time?

2002-10-12 Thread Dave Sherman
On Friday 11 October 2002 08:45 pm, John O'Shaughnessy wrote: > Greetings, > > I've got a Dell Latitude C400 with mandrake 9.0. > > There is: > 1. Inboard Ethernet (always present) > 2. Dock Ethernet (present only when docked) > 3. Wireless Ethernet PC Card (present only when inserted -- could be e

Re: [expert] Network Interfaces at boot time?

2002-10-11 Thread Todd Flinders
This may not be the most elegant way, but you could edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 and change the ONBOOT parameter to no. Then when you want to bring up eth1, type: ifup eth1 When you want to undock the laptop, you can bring down eth1 first with: ifdown eth1 On

Re: [expert] Network Interfaces at boot time?

2002-10-11 Thread James Sparenberg
John, There may be other ways to do this but I'd go into /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and set ifcfg-eth1 where it says ONBOOT to no and then when I do need it just do ifup eth1 and bring it up manually. James On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 20:45, John O'Shaughnessy wrote: > Greetings, > > I've g

[expert] Network Interfaces at boot time?

2002-10-11 Thread John O'Shaughnessy
Greetings, I've got a Dell Latitude C400 with mandrake 9.0. There is: 1. Inboard Ethernet (always present) 2. Dock Ethernet (present only when docked) 3. Wireless Ethernet PC Card (present only when inserted -- could be either docked or undocked. When I installed the system, eth0 was the interna