Re: debian network/interfaces vs wlan.conf &c

> From: James Hughes <[email protected]>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I use debian unstable and have always used the /etc/network/interfaces
> file to set wireless options, eg. 'wireless_essid myssid', and that
> has always worked fine.
> 
> In googling around for solutions to my current difficulties (more on
> that in a subsequent post, probably) I have become aware of the files
> /etc/wlan.conf and wlanctl-DEFAULT. Do I need to worry about these if
> I'm setting things in the interfaces file and doing ifup/ifdown?
> 

Not really. The way debian seems to package up the
stuff from the wlan-ng project is to cut out these
kind of files and work things into using /etc/network/interfaces as you describe - in other words
they 'debian-ise' the control & options related files.

Presumably you have a script in /etc/network/if-pre-up.d
which has the wlan-ng control nitty-gritty stuff in.
If you wanted any more sophisticated control you would
have to edit that.

Note also that the last time I checked, this debian-isation
dropped the firmware files as well. Operation can often
be improved by using the ram firmware uploads at runtime -
I had to script this up myself (on my Ubuntu box, which of
course is based on Debian).

Karl

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