Package: wpasupplicant Version: 0.4.8-4 Severity: normal It appears like the ESSID is not set properly when the interface comes up. The if-pre-up.d/wpasupplicant script seems to run:
/sbin/wpa_cli -p /var/run/wpa_supplicant -i eth1 set_network 0 ssid '"foobar"' When doing a "list" in the wpa_cli I get: network id / ssid / bssid / flags 0 foobar any [CURRENT] Still when running "iwconfig" I can see that the ESSID is not set to "foobar". Perhaps the wpa_cli just sets a bunch of parameter for a WLAN with the ESSID "foobar" - but doesn't actually assign that ESSID to the interface. My current workaround: adding a "wireless-essid foobar" to the interface definition like: auto eth1 iface eth1 inet static address ... netmask ... gateway ... dns-nameservers ... dns-search ... wireless-essid foobar wpa-ssid foobar wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK wpa-proto WPA wpa-driver wext wpa-passphrase toomanysecrets Maybe this is supposed to work like that and it's indeed not the wpasupplicant's job to set the ESSID. In that case I would like to propose that the README.modes makes that clear. It reads: wpa-ssid: sets the essid of your network And to be exact it doesn't set it. Christoph -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-486 Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE.UTF-8) Versions of packages wpasupplicant depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncurses5 5.5-2 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libreadline5 5.1-7 GNU readline and history libraries ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8b-2 SSL shared libraries wpasupplicant recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
