Using FreeBSD disconnected on a notebook

[Tobias Roth]

On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 04:04:53PM -0400, Stephen Moriarty wrote:
> I'm trying to configure FreeBSD on my notebook such that when it's 
> docked at the office, I'm able to take advantage of networked resources 
> - NIS, amd, NFS. When I'm away, I want to selectively, and preferably 
> automatically, take advantage of the more limited network resources, 
> which usually includes none of the previous examples. Surely, someone 
> else has already solved this. The only reference I found were relative 
> to email.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2003-November/002284.html

this patch might help. it enables support for multiple network profiles
(eg home, work, home-wlan) that get detected automatically whenever the
laptop is started or woken from suspend. everything below /etc can be
configured per location, and hooks for non- /etc stuff are present.

it does not apply cleanly to -current but that can easily be fixed.

i don't have time right now to add the missing parts (acpi support,
clean restart in case the laptop crashes, for whatever reason not related
to my patch, fully working suspend/resume support), but i will fix
things next month or so.

i have used it without suspend/resume functionality for months and it is
stable.

cheers, t.