Very cool info, thanks a million. Weird thing is that I did muck about with modules.conf and the wireless card *still* came up as eth0. -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Services, Inc. http://www.camerontech.com (512) 454-3200 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig White" To: Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 6:28 PM Subject: Re: New Dell laptop dificulties > 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. > > > ---- > /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 > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >