[LUAU] Ubuntu Networking

[Al Plant]

R. Scott Belford wrote:
>> Aloha Scott,
>>
>> Mahalo for pointing me in the right direction.
>> I was able to lock the network admin settings into manual mode and that
>> worked. I was able to put both wlan and eth0 into the network/interfaces
>> file and can usr the ifup and ifdown to use either. I also made backup files
>> of the settings in the directory too.
>>
>> You have any thoughts on how I can get a cafe link to not override every
>> thing if I wanted to use the netbook at a Starbucks or other place with
>> wifi? I'm afraid that the auto config over writes the networks file if you
>> use it.
> 
> Aloha Al
> 
> Given your depth and experience with FreeBSD and the terminal, you may
> find yourself comfortable with the /usr/share/doc/{relevant
> documents}.  The Debian/Ubuntu realm have good documentation for
> configuring various behaviors within /etc/network/.  The wpasupplicant
> files have good information for profiles.
> 
> I know just what you are dealing with.  The GUI tool has the ability
> to set a profile, but it never really worked well for me.  This is
> kind of a weak area right now, and it's partly why WICD is becoming so
> popular.
> 
> The way I handled your situation for years on my old orange ibook
> running debian was to create a few /etc/network/interfaces files.
> Then I ran a basic script like iamhome, iamatwork, iamatuh, to load
> the appropriate configurations for my interfaces.  For you, this will
> work fine.
> 
>> ~Al Plant
> 
> --scott
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Aloha Scott,

Thats what I figured I'd do too.

Brian Chee sent me the how to on the other WAN stuff. I'll try that too.

Thanks again.

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