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#1 2009-07-23 23:39:51

postit
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Registered: 2009-07-23
Posts: 8

Networking on laptop: eth0 and wireless profiles

Hi everybody. I have a laptop with these network devices:

Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (wlan0)
Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (eth0)

I've installed (for first time smile) Arch using eth0 network interface and now I want to configure properly the network interfaces. I use the laptop in lot of places and I need both wired conection (eth0) and several wireless profiles: wlan0 at my home, wlan0 at my girlfriends home, wlan0 at my work office, etc. Always using dhcp.

The main network interface would be my wlan0 at home.

How should I set up? Using /etc/rc.conf or using netcfg? If I use netcfg I have to clean my /etc/rc.conf network configuration? By now I have it on this way:

eth0="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(eth0)
#NETWORKS=(main)

Also, at this moment, i haven't created /etc/modprobe.conf file (with both alias for eth0 and wlan0)

Thanks if someone could help me smile
Cheers

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#2 2009-07-24 06:46:42

etsi
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Registered: 2009-07-18
Posts: 4

Re: Networking on laptop: eth0 and wireless profiles

I'm using this http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wicd and it works pretty good (lan @ home, wlan @ home , wlan @ work)

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#3 2009-07-24 07:59:37

PierreR
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Registered: 2008-11-10
Posts: 58

Re: Networking on laptop: eth0 and wireless profiles

I have been using netcfg with success (without changing my rc.conf).

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#4 2009-08-01 11:12:20

postit
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Registered: 2009-07-23
Posts: 8

Re: Networking on laptop: eth0 and wireless profiles

Hi, sorry for don't replying. And thanks a lot for your help smile Finally i've installed netcfg and configured several profiles. It works fine!

Cheers

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#5 2009-08-01 20:21:27

uwinkelvos
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Registered: 2009-06-07
Posts: 129

Re: Networking on laptop: eth0 and wireless profiles

i just want to second etsi. if you are using any graphical enviroment, wicd is really good, when you are not too keen on doing everything manually with netcfg.

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