[NTLUG:Discuss] A Laptop

[Randall Gibson]

To add a domain to my laptop, I added this line to /etc/resolv.conf

domain mmt.bellhowell.com

Randall

On 2002.01.20 21:42 kbrannen at gte.net wrote:
> Probably depends on your setup.  With everything set to factory defaults, I 
> just plugged the card in and it auto-magically worked without me doing a thing 
> (note, I already had networking working with a 3Com PCMCIA card and wire, so 
> when I pulled that out and put in the WaveLAN, all I had to worry about was 
> the wireless).  This is with Suse 7.[01] installs, but I don't think RH 7.x 
> would be much different.
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> OTOH, we recently found some guy from another company downstairs jumping onto 
> our network via the wireless receivers to run Morpheus/KaZaa.  We'd planned on 
> doing something to prevent that but just hadn't gotten around to it.  Once we 
> found him doing that, it really bumped up that security task's priority. :-) 
> We reported him to his manager then changed all the receivers to require a 
> domain name, and also gave it all the MAC addresses from our machines.  Since 
> we've done that, I have yet to make the WaveLAN work under Linux; but then I 
> haven't tried very hard either.  I think I need to change 
> /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts to have the domain name (or so a HowTo told me), but 
> I have yet to make it work; and as I'm about to leave the company, I may not 
> bother trying.  After all, I'm the network admin, so I have all the network 
> ports I need already with that nice switch on my desk. :-)
> 
> Kevin
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> Bug Hunter wrote:
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> >   How hard was it to get the wavelan modems working on redhat?  was this a
> > new install or an add-on to an old install.   I've found little
> > intelligble documentation.
> > 
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> > On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 kbrannen at gte.net wrote:
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> >>I've used Dell 7500's at work that have done very well.  Video seems to need 
> >>to be 1280x1024, though depth can be 8, 16, or 24.  We use the 3Com PCMCIA 
> >>cards, and the Lucent WaveLAN wireless cards without problems.  
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