can I use wireless & wired cards together?

Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko Alex.Kovalenko at verizon.net
Thu Jun 16 12:43:28 GMT 2005


On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 21:12 -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 09:07 +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> > The only potential problem is if you want the cards to share the same
> > IP address space.  That will only work if the net masks are different.
> 
> That's actually pretty annoying.  I can't disable the onboard wireless
> of my T42, so I have no choice but to use it on wireless (or
> edit /etc/rc.conf, reboot, and remember to re-enable it later) when I'm
> at home --- not so nice when I want to do large data transfers between
> it and my desktop box.  :(
> 
I would suspect that building your wireless driver as the module and
loading/unloading it is necessary will do the trick. I have attached
script which I successfully use on variety of laptops, including my
T42p.

Script is based on the one cited in BSD Hacks book from O'Reily with
some minor improvements.

-- 
Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко)


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