----- Original Message ----- From: "Charlie Bullen" To: Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 3:49 PM Subject: New Dell laptop dificulties > I have a new Dell Inspiron 1100. The first thing I did was wipe the > harddrive so I could start with a clean slate. Due to work > considerations I have to use windows XP for certain things, so I now > have a dual boot with XP and Redhat 9.0. > > On the linux side I am having a few networking problems. The box came > with a broadcom 440X nic, which is unsupported by Redhat out of the box > and I also use a Linksys WPC11 wireless card, which is supported by > Redhat out of the box. > > I downloaded and installed the drivers for the broadcom installed then > and that works fine. I also configured the wireless card and it works > fine, except that I can't get it to work in encrypted mode yet(probably > my typing of the key). > > With the wireless card in place, it is ETH0 and the broadcom is ETH1. > The problem arises when I boot into Linux when the wireless card is not > inserted, which is the case when I am at a remote site. Then the > broadcom is recognized as ETH0 and it tries to use the orinoco prism > driver from the wireless card. And I then have no connectivity at all. > > What I want to happen is, I think, to have the broadcom designated as > ETH0 using the driver I install, but not have ETH0 activated at boot and > have the wireless designated as ETH1 and activated at boot when it is > present. > > Any ideas how to accomplish this? > > Charlie I have an Inspiron 5100 with onboard wireless and the Broadcom. I fought for about 2 hours trying to get it to work with the Broadcom on eth0. I made changes to /etc/modules.conf, explicitly aliasing the Broadcom to eth0 and it still did not do it. I have not tried moving the pcmcia services to start after networking services - I think that might cause the Broadcom to come up first and become eth0. -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Services, Inc. http://www.camerontech.com/ (512) 454-3200