Centrino wireless with additional ethernet adapter

CAPTAIN RON FL ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org
Wed May 18 00:52:03 UTC 2005


John Ruschmeyer Wrote: 
> On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 13:41 -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote:

> > On Tuesday 17 May 2005 01:15 pm, Jeff Elkins wrote:

> > > On Tuesday 17 May 2005 12:39 pm, Raghu Vemuri wrote:

> > > > >Any suggestions on cleaning this up?

> > > >

> > > > you can setup eth1 in your /etc/network/interfaces file with
> these lines

> > > >

> > > > iface eth1 inet dhcp

> > > >     wireless-essid any

> > > >     wireless-key MYHEXPASS

> > > >

> > > > then you use the following command to bring up eth1

> > > >

> > > > ifup eth1

> > > >

> > > > If you want to automatically have eth1 enabled during boot then
> having

> > > > this line in the /etc/network/interfaces file should do it.

> > > >     auto eth1

> > > >

> > 

> > On another note, would it be possible to automate this further with
> so the 

> > system chooses the correct interface depending if eth0 is plugged
> in?

> 

> This sounds like a job for ifplugd. Basically, it's a daemon that
> brings

> up an interface when it detects a media connection (i.e., it would do

> and 'ifup eth1' when you plug in the lan cable).

> 

> It takes a little configuration, but seems to work well and can handle

> hotplug devices such as USB and cardbus NICs.

> 

> <<<john>>>

> 

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Do you have to have a key..."key MYHEXPASS".... or can you leave this
out? Also will this work in Gnome? I am having problems with my Toshiba
laptop getting on line. 

I have a Netgear WG511 card. I think it sees the card, but DHCP does
not seem to work. 



I was able to get the built in lan to work though.



I am looking for some way to get my wireless to work.



Any help will do. 

Aloha, Ron


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