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On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 01:42 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: |
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> On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 7:12 PM, deface <deface@×××××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> > Daniel da Veiga wrote: |
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> > > I've been struggling with network managing in my laptop for some time |
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> > > now. There's no decent way to keep it on config files. I connect to a |
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> > > LOT of completely different wired and wireless networks. |
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been there, done that ... and gave up. |
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Write your own scripts and shortcut the frustration. |
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Keep a directory with a subdirectory for each site. Have all config |
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files needed properly configured and stored there. Lastly, a simple |
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script just copies in the required files over the top of the last lot |
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and restarts the services. I have a desktop icon and a GUI (using |
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gtkdialog) so I can easily select the correct site. |
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Ive tried a few like network manager, and also tried to get gentoo's |
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networking to do it semi-automaticly to help, but all I ended up with |
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was a frustratingly fragile mess. |
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At least now it works reliably, and saves me lots of time as well. |
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BillK |
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