Re: Location manager type tool?


Subject: Re: Location manager type tool?
From: Paul J. Lucas (pauljlucas@mac.com)
Date: Mon Feb 05 2001 - 23:14:40 MST


On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:

> ... I need something like MacOS's Location manager. Since the machine goes
> where I go, I'd like to be able to quickly tweak it to configure to my
> current circumstances -- which might be at home, at work, or neither -- and
> hooked up to a 10Bt, a Wavelan/Airport card, or no network. There's also the
> possibility of a static IP address vs. DHCP, although I'm hoping to handle it
> by DHCP when it's hooked up to a network.
>
> I was busily putting together scripts to do this, when I realized someone
> else had probably done this before, better than the hack I was considering.
> So I stopped to ask for once... (grin).
>
> Anyone got a nice, fun, easy way to do something like this?

        It's already part of the wireless PCMCIA stuff. Read up
        on schemes.

        - Paul



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