Different network configs based on physical card?

[carl]

Since this is more networking than laptops, I thought I'd post it here.

I'd like to be able to set different networking "profiles" automatically, based on the card that's in the PCMCIA slot at bootup.

At work, I use my Xircom card, and have to have a static IP (it's dumb--the rest of the university is DHCP). At home and my girlfriend's house, I use my Orinoco Gold wireless card, and it's all dynamic.

Is there a way (and this is stretching it, I know) for the system to look at the card (perhaps based on what module is loaded) and choose a networking profile based on that card? That way, I don't have to log in as root, go in and edit my conf.d/net file, restart certain services, and then log back in as my normal user.

Any thoughts?

[carl]

Here's a quick bump to see if anyone has any ideas.

Feel free to offer other suggestions that may not be precisely what I'm after.

[mikki]

You should be able to do this with hotplug scripts, assuming that the wifi and hardline configs are always the same in whatever environments they are in (ie that you don't have multiple different wireless or wired configs), or that the scripts could figure it out (or prompt you?).

I haven't tried this, but you asked for "any ideas". On April Fool's Day, no less. ^_^
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Mikki

[caffiend]

The specifics escape me, but I'm pretty sure that you can do that with the pcmcia config files. PCMCIA looks up the MAC address of the card and then configures it correctly.

Poke around in /etc/pcmcia/{network,wireless} files to see if that makes sense.

[carl]

Those are both excellent ideas.

Too bad I don't have the knowledge to put them to work.

Thanks nonetheless...I'll keep poking around!

[caffiend]

[carl]

[caffiend]

*sigh* yes you're right, I'm just confused and distracted :)

ok...

we have /etc/pcmcia/network.opts

I was only partially right...