Re: [gentoo-user] Can the new baselayout handle multiple networks seamlessly?

2006-09-21 Thread James Ausmus
On 9/20/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:35:09 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > I haven't tried using it for this, but I wonder if RC_USE_CONFIG_PROFILE > would help. See /etc/conf.d/rc for details but basically you set up > different configs for different runleve

Re: [gentoo-user] Can the new baselayout handle multiple networks seamlessly?

2006-09-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:35:09 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > I haven't tried using it for this, but I wonder if RC_USE_CONFIG_PROFILE > would help. See /etc/conf.d/rc for details but basically you set up > different configs for different runlevels, so you could have a different > runlevel for each s

Re: [gentoo-user] Can the new baselayout handle multiple networks seamlessly?

2006-09-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:21:25 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > The nightmare is that gentoo will only handle a small subset of the > networks I need to connect to at any one time (i.e., I cant configure > all the networks in the one set of config files - see my original post > for the permutations

Re: [gentoo-user] Can the new baselayout handle multiple networks seamlessly?

2006-09-20 Thread William Kenworthy
On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 08:45 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 09:48:11 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: > ... > > > No relief from the nightmare I am afraid ... > > Why is this nightmare anything to do with Gentoo? If you connect to > networks that require manual configuration, you have

Re: [gentoo-user] Can the new baselayout handle multiple networks seamlessly?

2006-09-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 09:48:11 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: > If I set the NIC to DHCP as you advise, you are implying that gentoo > will handle the various fixed IP's, subnets, gateways and differing vpn > schemes automaticly? How can it do that? Only some of the networks > (only three in fact) use

Re: [gentoo-user] Can the new baselayout handle multiple networks seamlessly?

2006-09-19 Thread W.Kenworthy
If I set the NIC to DHCP as you advise, you are implying that gentoo will handle the various fixed IP's, subnets, gateways and differing vpn schemes automaticly? How can it do that? Only some of the networks (only three in fact) use DHCP. ifplugd looks interesting - possibly the best I can do wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Can the new baselayout handle multiple networks seamlessly?

2006-09-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 06:58:11 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: > Also, is there an integrated way to plug in a network cable and have a > config RELIABLY recognised and trigger the necessary actions? Its not a > good look to arrive at lecture in front of 30-50 people and struggle to > connect to the loca

[gentoo-user] Can the new baselayout handle multiple networks seamlessly?

2006-09-19 Thread W.Kenworthy
Can the new baselayout handle multiple networks seamlessly? I currently connect to multiple networks using a laptop with an ipw2200 wireless and a built in NIC consisting of: NIC, fixed IP NIC, DHCP NIC, DHCP and openvpn NIC, DHCP and CiscoVPN wireless with wpa/tkip wireless with wpa/tkip and open