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yurac

Member

Registered: 2007-01-24

Posts: 3

Laptop hardware profile management

Hi,

I have a laptop and I use it at three different places with different hardware
configuration. For me the option of selecting a network profile is not enough.
What I do, and I think it can be useful for other laptop users is the following:

I modified /etc/rc.sysinit so that at the beginning it shows a menu for choosing a profile. Assume that a profile 'home' is chosen. Then it symlinks
/etc/rc.conf->/etc/rc.conf.home.
Then different hardware profiles can be used by creating a rc.conf.profile
file for each profile.

The problem is that I have to modify rc.sysinit each time I upgrade initscripts.
Maybe it can be a good idea to add the support for such feature in rc.sysinit or some other place?

Before using Arch, I used gentoo, and there was a package hprofile there that
handled this issue. however, it was a bit awkward.

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Laptop hardware profile management

Submit a feature request - sounds like a good idea.

yurac

Member

Registered: 2007-01-24

Posts: 3

Re: Laptop hardware profile management

How can I do that?

Sorry, I am new here

codemac

Member

From: Cliche Tech Place

Registered: 2005-05-13

Posts: 794

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Re: Laptop hardware profile management

http://bugs.archlinux.org

I'd just like to say that this is a neat idea, but I personally don't have a use for it.  Network is all I need

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