On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 13:49, Charlie Bullen wrote:
> 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.
> 
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/etc/modules.conf

alias eth0 whatever_driver_broadcom_uses
alias eth1 orinoco_cs (or whatever your prism II driver uses)

depmod -ae

swap /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 & ifcfg-eth1

 - to make the WEP happen...

iwconfig -essid "Wireless_network" key "9999-9999-9999-9999-9999" or
better yet...put the appropriate items in /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts

Craig