3 Maintainer: Andrew McMillan <debian@mcmillan.net.nz>
4 Standards-Version: 3.5.6.0
5 Build-Depends-Indep: debhelper
9 Suggests: pcmcia-cs, fping, net-tools, iputils-arping
11 Description: Automatically reconfigure your (laptop) system for a new location
12 whereami is a set of useful scripts and a coordinating system for
13 automatically re-locating your computer within the current (network)
16 Typically, you would use whereami to automatically detect and
17 re-configure your laptop when you move between a variety of diverse
18 networks and/or docking environments.
20 Although whereami will work best if all of your networks assign
21 addresses through dhcp, this is not a pre-requisite and the system
22 allows any technique to be used to ascertain the new location with
23 as little ongoing user intervention as possible.
25 Having ascertained the correct location, whereami will run appropriate
26 (user-configured) scripts to adjust the laptop operation to suit the
29 See http://debiana.net/whereami/ for more information. You may also
30 get useful assistance from the debian-laptop mailing list, which is
31 frequented by several of the contributors.