Package: wireless-tools
Version: 27-2
Severity: minor
Hi,
I use wireless-tools to setup wifi at home and at work, and in the
first case I need to set an ESSID while I don't in the second case.
I've setup the ESSID with "wireless-essid" in /etc/network/interfaces,
but only for the "wifi-home" interface. Everything goes fine when I
bring my wireless interface up with ifup ath0=wifi-home. However, when
bringing the generic entry up, with ifup ath0=wifi-dhcp, it still has
the essid iwconfigured.
I think a post-down script should reset some values to their default,
such as essid to "any" etc. I understand this might not be possible
for all parameters, or with all drivers, but as
/etc/network/if-post-down.d/* are configuration files, this shouldn't
cause any trouble.
It might also be a limitation of my driver - madwifi / atheros - which
wouldn't reset some parameters as it should, but I doubt that.
Regards,
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Versions of packages wireless-tools depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libiw27 27-2 Wireless tools - library
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