Package: ifupdown
Version: 0.6.8+nmu1
Severity: normal
If I do "ifup wlan0" before having plugged my USB wifi dongle, a subsequent
"ifup wlan0" just says "interface wlan0 already configured".
You can try it for yourself:
# cat /etc/network/interfaces
iface wlandummy0 inet manual
wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
iface default inet dhcp
# ifup wlandummy0
[...lots of errors...]
# ifup wlandummy0
ifup: interface wlandummy0 already configured
#
This causes problems for me, where some scripts occasionally blindly try
to start my wlan0 network, causing its "ifstate" to become
inconsistent, so that (for instance) my "allow-hotplug" rule ends up not
working when I plug in the dongle.
Maybe the hotplug code should always do an "ifup --force" to work around
such problems. Generally, I think the "ifstate" should be handled with
more care.
Stefan
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages ifupdown depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii net-tools 1.60-22 The NET-3 networking toolkit
ifupdown recommends no packages.
Versions of packages ifupdown suggests:
ii dhcp3-client 3.1.1-6 DHCP client
ii iproute 20080725-2 networking and traffic control too
ii ppp 2.4.4rel-10.1 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - da
-- debconf information:
ifupdown/convert-interfaces: true
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