[NBLUG/talk] Wireless configure in Debian

Ian Sutherland iansuth at fastmail.fm
Sun Mar 6 16:56:34 PST 2005


The wireless connection does not start at boot. Starts with dhclient
eth0.
The following is the content of the /etc/network/interfaces file. Is
this correct for boot start?;

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid "SonomaGrove"

Thanks again, Ian



On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 11:40:21 -0800, "Augie Schwer"
<augie.schwer at gmail.com> said:
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> On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 11:23:17 -0800, Ian Sutherland <iansuth at fastmail.fm>
> wrote:
> > Latest on eth0;
> > debian:/home/ian# iwconfig eth0 essid "SonomaGrove"
> > debian:/home/ian# dhclient eth0
> > DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
> > send_packet: Network is down
> 
> Ian,
> 
> It sounds like eth0 is not up; try :
> 
> ifconfig eth0 up
> 
> before or after the iwconfig statement.
> 
> Augie.
> 
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