Re: wireless settings not being read from /etc/network/interfaces

[Jeff D <fixedored@gmail.com>]

Anton Piatek wrote:
> Hi,
> My /etc/network/interfaces looks like this:
>
> iface eth1 inet dhcp
> essid   "ant-wifi"
> channel 01
> wireless-key ...
>
> yet if I just run "ifup eth1" the card does not connect. once I run
> "iwconfig eth1 channel 01" the ifup command works perfectly. Do i need
> to add something to the config file to make it work? It behaves like the
> options are not being passed to iwconfig before launching the dhcp client.
>
> Thanks,
> Anton
>
>
>   
Hi,

Try it with options like:

iface eth1 inet dhcp
       wireless-ap 00:AA:BF:AA:AA:AA
       wireless-essid ESSID
       wireless-channel 02
       .......