[ale] laptop configurations

[tmj at atlantageek.com]

As an update.  My netscape problem was being caused by eth0 being active with
the network disconnected at boot time.  I was disconnected from the network
and noticed that ifconfig showed eth0 still up.  I did a ifconfig eth0 down
and netscape recovered quite nicely.  Thanks for the suggestions as well
Reverend.
Reverend wrote:

> I do quite a bit of that.  All I do is set up a script to change my
> configuration.  My dialup works by default since I do not have a LAN where
> i dial up.  the script should contain three lines:
>
> ifconfig eth0 down
> ifconfig eth0 <IPADDR> netmask <NETMASK> broadcast <BROADCAST>
> route add default gw <GATEWAY>
>
> Make as many of these as you need for your different networks.  You may
> want to have your main network come up be default or something.
>
> The ReVeReND
> <ryan at toast.wildfyre.com>
>
> On Mon, 30 Aug 1999 tmj at atlantageek.com wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I am the proud owner of a new laptop running redhat 6.0.  My problem is
> > that I run on multiple networks and a dialup connection.  Does anyone
> > have any suggestions on how I can set up something at bootup to select
> > which network configuration to use.  I did come across something in the
> > linux laptop howto that was did some of this.  But I was wondering if
> > anyone else is having this problem.
> >
> > A somewhat similar problem I am having is the occasional lockup by
> > netscape when I am not connected to a network.  I set it for loading a
> > blank home page but it is being very tempermental (netscape 4.5)  I've
> > figured out that if I wipe out the .netscape directory it resets itself
> > and everything works fine.  But this really sucks for obvious reasons.
> > Does anyone have any suggestions.
> >