On 29.01.2011 22:02, Paul Bryan Roberts wrote: > > I have studied happier scripts. I can see no discrimination on the basis of > interface name. This suggests that it was not the original author's > intent to > exclude wireless interfaces. So I guess the script just does not work > properly.
No, the script works as expected. It comments out entries which only use dhcp and have no further options. > > The script makes a number of simplifying assumptions about the contents of > /etc/network/interfaces and clearly cannot cope with stanzas [as per > interfaces(5)] as complex as the wlan0 stanza. > > It seems to want to disable only interfaces with an auto or allow- > stanza but > has to act on the corresponding iface stanza. > > An easier script to write is one that changes the iface name (e.g. wlan0 > to no_wlan0). > This has the advantage of not leaving the file syntactically incorrect. That is not true. The file that is left by NM is not syntactically incorrect. > I can provide such > a script if wanted. Thanks for the offer, but no. First try to understand why the script behaves the way it does and why you can't simply comment out everything. > > It might be more sensible to simply back up and replace > /etc/network/interfaces with a > copy that declares just the loopback interface The loopback configuration in /e/n/i is actually completely unnecessary if you use network-manager, as NM will bring up lo in any case. on the grounds that > anyone requiring > network interfaces that are not managed by the Network Manager will be > visiting the > file anyway. This would throw away any local modifications, so this is definitely a no-go. Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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