On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 04:03:55PM -0500, Jon VW wrote: > Being that I hate reconfiguring everything when I get home and want to > be able to have linux grab a dhcp address for eth0 (internet) and if > that doesn't work grab an address like 192.168.0.6 (home network) > Windows XP has this feature built in (and that is really my goal to > replace windows as my primary OS) If you don't want to setup dhcp, there are plenty of packages that reconfigure laptops based on the environment. I don't know off hand which are available with Red Hat, but you should at least be able to find them online somewhere. Edited results from apt-cache search laptop: divine - Automatic IP configuration detection for laptops ifplugd - A configuration daemon for ethernet devices intuitively - Automatic IP configuration detection for laptops laptop-net - Automatically adapt laptop ethernet laptop-netconf - network detection and configuration program for laptops switchconf - Change network config for laptops whereami - Automatically reconfigure your (laptop) system for a new location -- Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) crumley at fields.space.umn.edu |Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ Never laugh at live dragons |Dmitry's free,Jon's next? http://faircopyright.org _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list