networking woes

[Killerpenguins]

Sorry for the blathering, most of my family doesn't want to know or 
hear anymore about computers then what they need.
In the original post I described my network problem.  A laptop with one 
network card, that needs to be transportable between 4 networks.  One 
Win network with dhcp at 192.168.1.xxx and special workgroup name (not 
sure is workgroup names are needed for samba), the second one dhcp 
(range 192.168.123.xxx), multiple os's, workgroup name different again. 
The third; different workgroup name, fixed IP's two subnets.  The 
fourth dhcp (currently) with some fixed ip's, and yet another workgroup 
name. 
I've heard of ipalias but I've never heard of it being set to 4 
networks and dhcp and fixed ip's.

Thanks for listening

The system is an ECS desknote 1.6 celeron, 512pc2100 desktop mem, 40gb 
5400 harddrive, 4 usb and 1 1394 ports, freaking wintel modem (very 
recent linmodem) sis900 onboard ethernet, sis650 chipset, dvd/cdrw and 
15" moniter that I finally found the specs for at desknote.biz.

----- Original Message -----
From: Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins at opus1.com>
Subject: Re: networking woes

> So, was there, like, a question you wanted to ask, or are you just 
> kind of 
> giving us a whitepaper status-of-your-linux statement?
> 
> DHCP, if set up correctly, will provide your laptop with whatever 
> it needs for 
> whichever network you're on.  Assuming your goal is to 
> occcasionally be on 
> any of the three networks, a script would be handy to do manual 
> config on the 
> manual network.  
> 
> Note that static vs. dynamic addressing is not the same as DHCP 
> vs. manual 
> configuration.
> 
> If you're looking for help with the lock-up, can you start the 
> laptop in 
> console or single-user mode?  Do you know what chipset, refresh 
> rates, RAM, 
> and other settings the system uses?  What did it use under 
> Windows?  What did 
> it use under RedHat?
> 
> 
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