<quote who="Phil"> > I must be missing something. Work has one key and different essid, at > home I have different ones. So I setup two locations, one called home and > one called work. > > If I hibernate at work and start-up the OS when I get home, it never ever > recognises my home network. I have to manually configure it using > iwconfig. Is there an easy way to do this ? My wireless chip is an > Atheros based one.
The default software isn't clever enough to do this for you. However, with a little help from Network Manager (install network-manager-gnome), you will have a *very* pleasurable network switching experience; both wifi and wired. Unfortunately, NM doesn't work very well with my Atheros wifi, because the drivers are a bit b0rky (if you try to scan, you'll be disassociated from the AP - NM scans regularly, so the combination is cruel and unusual). You may have a better experience if your card requires the madwifi-ng drivers. I absolutely loved NM when I had an ipw2200-based laptop. Plug in the cable and *blam*, wired network. Unplug and *blam*, connected to my home wireless network. Go to the JSBH and *blam*, connected to the pub's wireless network. It's great stuff, *if* everything from your kernel drivers up are good. Linux wifi from the kernel up is a bit sucky at this point, but there is a *lot* of work being done on it. :-) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ "Spanish Flu, the epidemic that killed 50 million people in 1918/9, was known as French Flu in Spain." - BBC News, 2005 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
