Wireless configuration (bugs?)

[Carl Gherardi]

Hey all,

This may not be the right forum for this, but others on the list will
probably be able to suggest alternate configurations.

I'm playing with wireless on my laptop for the first time and wonder if
the following is expected behavior.

My standard wired connection is a Xircom pcmcia adaptor, which I use
most of the time, and have a static ips on the various networks I attend
for it, using commented out sections in the relevant config files for
quick changes.

I was given a linksys wpc55ag adaptor to mess with, and discovered I
needed the madwifi module as it uses the atheros chipset. So far so
good.

While trying to figure out how to connect to the base station I decided
to reboot and find out what kudzu thought I should do. Kudzu detected
the card on startup, and gave me configuration options exactly like a
normal network adapter - seemed ok too. I decided to set it to use dhcp,
and see how that went.

Problem - dhclient decided to nuke:
a) /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (argh I had two network
setups in there... home and work) even though the card was being
identified as ath0. This seems wrong.
b) /etc/resolv.conf - this is more expected, but I had though dhclient
would leave commented lines alone.

After all that a question - is it possible to have two nics, one using
dhcp and the other static that does not destroy configs.

Thanks

Carl Gherardi

Apologies for the following.

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