Wireless profiles

[russell cook]

Hi Kent et al,
I haven't done this yet but intend to try.

What I'm thinking is to use the GUI networking tool System /
Administration / Networking and use it's location profile to set up
different wireless profiles. If these are kept separate, this would
allow my work and home SSID to be stored with the profile and activated
at a couple of clicks of the mouse.

It does mean that only your default profile will work at boot and you
have to wait till you're in the GUI to change but I'm hoping this is how
it will work and make this reasonably simple.

Kind Regards Russell
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On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 17:56 -0400, Zach wrote:

> Kent,
> 
> More details, please.  Sounds like what you're doing really rocks. 
> I'm especially interested in the ifplugd doohickey.  Sounds like a
> daemon that detects media presence on your eth0, then fires off some
> script to ifdown eth1, ifup eth0, or something like that.  I'd like to
> know more.
> 
> Zach
> 
> > Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 14:39:38 -0500
> > From: Kenton Brede <kbrede at nixnotes.org>
> > Subject: Re: Wireless profiles
> > To: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> > Message-ID: <20050405193938.GA1288 at brede.us>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> > 
> > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 02:16:01PM -0400, John DeCarlo (johndecarlo at gmail.com) wrote:
> > > I would like recommendations on a package that will keep track of my
> > > wireless connections and their setup.
> > >
> > > So, at home I have WEP encryption, SSID X, etc.
> > > At the library I use their unencrypted wireless
> > > At work there is another encryption setup and SSID,
> > >
> > > Right now I am still changing it all by hand.  I was just about to
> > > script the various changes I make when I thought that one of the
> > > packages available for Ubuntu might well do the trick.
> > >
> > > I searched on wireless in synaptic, but it found a bunch of packages -
> > > too many to try them all.
> > >
> > > Suggestions?
> > 
> > What I did is take out all entries from /etc/network/interfaces except
> > lo.  Create two new files in /etc/network/, one for wireless and one for
> > wired.  I hacked /etc/init.d/networking so that it looks for my home network
> > SSID.  If it finds that SSID then it it starts the wireless interface
> > with the appropriate WEP key.  Otherwise it snags the SSID presented and
> > starts without WEP.  For my wired connection I installed ifplugd and set
> > it up so it kills my wireless connection when I plug in the cable and
> > starts my wired network and reverses this when I unplug the cable.
> > 
> > If none of that made sense, whether I'm at home or at work my wireless
> > auto starts at boot.  If I want a wired connection, I plug the cable
> > in, wireless drops and wired is activated.  When I pull the cable the
> > wireless is activated.
> > 
> > If no one responds with a, 'just install this and your gold,' and you
> > would like more details, let me know.
> > Kent
> > 
> > --
> > "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
> >   - Martin Luther King Jr.
> >


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