wlan question--multple AP/IP addresses

wokno the sane · n00b Joined: 18 Dec 2002 Posts: 20

I have a linksys WPC11v3 card (prism 2 chipset) in my laptop, and want to be able to have it automaitcally configure it to work with both my AP at home, and the one at school.

The card works fine if i configure everything manually, but it's a pain to switch between the two networks. At home I have DHCP running, so i can get an IP/default gateway/etc through it, but at school I need to use a static IP, with a different gateway and nameservers.

I was thinking of writing a script that would run at boot that would try setting up each type, and pinging out to see which one works, but I wanted to see if there was a better solution.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.

wokno the sane · n00b Joined: 18 Dec 2002 Posts: 20

If I missed this in documentation somewhere, would someone please point me to it. I would think someone would have come across this trouble before.

UberLord · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2003 1:33 pm Post subject:

According to the docs....

Assuming you've set scheme names up correctly in wireless.ops you can append SCHEME="<scheme name>" to your grub kernel line or somewhere in LILO.

This claims to work, but I can't get it to. So this is what I do

login as root
cardctl scheme <scheme name>

insert pcmcia card and voila - correct settings!

wokno the sane · n00b Joined: 18 Dec 2002 Posts: 20

That's not exactly what i was looking for, and i don't think it will work with the wlan-ng drivers as they don't fully support wireless extensions. I was looking more for something which would automatically set up my IP address/gateway/dns settings when I switch from home to school or vice versa.

UberLord · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2003 4:39 pm Post subject:

AFAIK no such tool exists

If there is, then please let me know :!:

ozonator · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2003 5:47 pm Post subject:

It doesn't do quite what you're asking for (i.e. figure out at boot time automatically what network you're using), but "quickswitch" nevertheless might do the trick for you, by making it relatively easy to juggle the settings for multiple networks. It's in portage, where it's described as a "utility to switch network profiles on the fly."

UberLord · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2003 7:46 pm Post subject:

All that needs to be changed is the SSID used.

cardctl scheme <scheme name> takes care of that - which i would imagine is like the network profile changing tool.

ozonator · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2003 11:10 pm Post subject:

wokno the sane · n00b Joined: 18 Dec 2002 Posts: 20