Package: wireless-tools Version: 29-2 Severity: normal Tags: patch
For some time now, wireless-tools installs two identical configuration scripts in /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/ and /etc/network/if-up.d/. A while ago I noticed that I lost network connectivity right after dhclient fetched an address from ser DHCP server. After debugging this, I noticed that the script /etc/network/if-up.d/wireless-tools reconfigured my wlan card and thus broke the association with the access points - which was of course not needed, since a connection was already established. I thought about simply deleting the unused script, however I created a small patch to add a configuration option to specify when configuration should take place. Adding "wireless-postconf no" or "wireless-preconf no" to the network configuration will now disable the specified script, the default case is still to run both scripts. I am however unsure how that if-up script is supposed to work - assuming dhcp is used, a wlan connection must have been established prior to the script run. Otherwise, the user would have to wait quite a long time until dhclient withdraws into background. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages wireless-tools depends on: ii libc6 2.9-25 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libiw29 29-1.1 Wireless tools - library wireless-tools recommends no packages. wireless-tools suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
