Boot profiles

Trent Lloyd lathiat at bur.st
Tue May 3 08:09:07 UTC 2005


guessnet is very usefull, it also handles scanning for wireless
networks, triggering on association, trying to associate etc.

Combine with 'ifplugd'

Cheers,
Trent

On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 09:21 +0200, Schafer Frank wrote:
> Thanks,
> 
> seems this is too much auto magic. I prefer to have control myself. (I
> forgot to tell) There is a wireless network at work too. 
> 
> For now I decided to use the "kernel command line to init environment"
> feature.
> 
> I'll give guessnet a shot too in my home lab. It's not what I've asked
> for but it looks interesting.
> 
> Frank
> 
> On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 00:46 +0200, Yannick Le Saint (kyncani) wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 17:02 +0200, Frank Schafer wrote:
> > > is there a standard Ubuntu way to boot into different profiles via
> > > multiple grub entries?
> > > 
> > > I want to achieve this:
> > > 
> > > (1) booting with eth0 active using DHCP for "Penguin at work"
> > > (2) booting with wlan0 active using static IP address for "Penguin at
> > > home"
> > > (3) booting like 2 with the vpnclient module loaded for "Penguin
> > > homework"
> > > (4) booting with a GPRS network connection for "Penguin on the road"
> > > (5) booting without networking for "Penguin alone"
> > > 
> > > I know, I could edit the network related rc scripts directly but is
> > > there a standard way to do this with Ubuntu?
> > 
> >   I have not tested it yet but you may take a look at guessnet.
> > 
> 
> 
> 
-- 
Trent Lloyd <lathiat at bur.st>
Bur.st Networking Inc.





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