On 14/05/2025 11:29, tomas wrote:
On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 09:57:17AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
I have noticed that deprecated wireless-tools have some kind of integration
with ifupdown while README.Debian from iw explicitly states that no helpers
are provided. Do you use in /etc/network/interfaces any configuration option
handled by namely wireless-tools or you have solely wpasupplicant
preferences to connect to access points?
I only have needed wpa things in there (mainly wpa-ssid and wpa-psk; only
Thanks. So ifupdwn hooks from wireless-tools should not be used. I am in
doubts concerning wpasupplicant driver.
/usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/README.Debian.gz states that old wext is
used by default while accordingly to the upstream changelog netlink
driver is used by default since 2014.
once I needed wpa-bssid to make sure my laptop connects to the 2.4 GHz band,
since the AP and the laptop would prefer the 5 GHz -- more is better, right? --
but that one is unreliable as hell).
It is reasonable default for higher bandwidth from my point of view. Of
course, there are specific cases when 2.4 GHz band is less busy or more
friendly to hardware of particular devices.
