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PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 8:57 am    Post subject: Switching LAN/WLAN on boot Reply with quote

I use my laptop at home as well as at work, with an ethernet connection at work and WLAN (WIFI) at home. It annoyed me to wait for the inactive network to find out it was actually inactive (dhcp timeout). So I wrote a little script that checks if a ethernet cable is connected. If that is the case, the ethernet device eth0 is started. If not the WLAN, eth1, is started.

More detailed description:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Sony_Vaio_VGN-TX3#LAN.2FWLAN

(of course you may have to change device names)


Hope someone finds this useful.
Comments and suggestions are welcome.

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 10:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice, thnx, just what I need.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 2:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks.

But how I can make this.
If network cable plug then use ethernet card for network, if unplug than use WiFi?
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 5:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very nice! I have been using a script on my own, which first tries the LAN and if it fails then modprobes and starts the wireless.

This script is _very_ useful in that context.

ZmiyGorinich wrote:
But how I can make this.
If network cable plug then use ethernet card for network, if unplug than use WiFi?
This is to be started as a service. So, when you boot your machine (or resume from suspend) then (re)start this service so that if a cable is plugged then it will start the LAN, and if there is no cable plugged in, it will start the wifi.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 5:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ZmiyGorinich wrote:
Thanks.

But how I can make this.
If network cable plug then use ethernet card for network, if unplug than use WiFi?


Have you tried arping using arping configuration? Have a look at this:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Network_profiles_with_arping

It works flawlessly for me: Auto-search the two wired gateways I use (home and work), if no plug, the wireless comes up and connects :D
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I believe sys-apps/netplug in portage also does this pretty well
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