Re: [Fwd: Re: here i come !]

[Bruce Robert Pocock <brpocock 10east com>]

On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 18:12, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> mån 2002-06-24 klockan 23.49 skrev Thomas Vander Stichele:
> > On 24 Jun 2002, Miles Lane wrote:
>  
> > But detecting it at boot time doesn't seem like a good idea, in truth my 
> > laptop hasn't been rebooted for more than a week now that apm works right 
> > (and I learned of all the quirks - unmount your network drives before 
> > going to sleep when planning to move to a different network and all that 
> > ;)).
> 
> That is another thing that would be nice to have. Some "Switch
> network"-kinda applet/application. So that you can easiliy switch from
> being at home or at work or whatever on your laptop. And get dhcp in one
> of them and static IP in the other, mount NFS, use the correct ESSID for
> your wavelan etc...

There was talk of this in a local LUG recently, about detecting the
active/available network using things like arpwatch. "I can't see a
network on your wireless card now, but I see your friendly office
fileserver on your ethernet card..." (Inspired (?) by Win2k "popup
network switch detection" things...)

Right now the things's a tarball of shell scripts and "xmessage" calls,
but it works decently (on Yellow Dog/PPC on an iBook); would anyone be
interested in my integrating that with e.g. the XST "Location Switcher"
GUI, or ...?