Using Debian stable (Etch), 2.6.18-4-686 kernel on Debian Dell Inspiron
e1505. The wireless card (from lshw output is)
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:00.0
logical name: eth2
version: 02
serial: 00:13:02:9e:cc:1b
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ipw3945 driverversion=1.1.2dmpr
firmware=13.0 1:0 () ip=128.84.152.138 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes
wireless=IEEE 802.11a
resources: iomemory:dfcff000-dfcfffff irq:169
The relevant stanza in /etc/network/interfaces is
# allow-hotplug eth2
# auto eth2
# iface eth2 inet dhcp
# wireless-essid SomeThing
# wireless-mode Managed
I commented out this stanza and did
$sudo ifconfig eth2 down
Even after that, eth2 interface comes up after some time for no reason. I
believe it is due to dhclient, since I see messages like the following
in /var/log/syslog
Aug 7 12:15:10 kusumanchi dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth2 to 132.236.56.249
port 67
But I dont know how to prevent the automatic configuring of this wireless
device. I do not want to remove dhclient since it is essential when I do
want to bring up eth2.
$dpkg -l \*dhcp\* | grep ^ii
ii dhcp3-client 3.0.4-13 DHCP Client
ii dhcp3-common 3.0.4-13 Common files used by all the dhcp3*
packages
Any suggestions?
thanks
raju
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