Re: WiFi after initial install
On 12/5/2016 7:31 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote:
All my past Debian experience of setting up WiFi is pre-systemd /
pre-stretch, and a long time in my past so I have forgotten more than I
ever knew :) Outside Debian, I've done it on LFS using systemd-networkd
-- I know that can be made to work but it doesn't seem very Debianesque
to me.
Any suggestions on what I should do to set this up?
TIA
Mark
If your past experience is doing the setup in '/etc/network/interfaces'
That has not changed. At least the way I do it has not changed.
I'm running Debian unstable, with resolvconf installed so I can put the
DNS name servers in the iterfaces file. I use static IP addresses so my
wireless config looks something like....
iface wlan0 inet static
address X.X.X.X
netmask X.X.X.X
gateway X.X.X.X
dns-nameservers X.X.X.X X.X.X.X
wpa-ssid your_ssid
wpa-psk Your_Wireless_Key
The only changes to my wireless configuration over the years have been
due to interface name changes and at some point (probably when I
switched from WEP to WPA) the wireless part went from
wireless-ssid
wireless-psk
to
wpa-ssid
wpa-psk
so for dhcp should be something like.
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-ssid your_ssid
wpa-psk Your_Wireless_Key
If you have a need or just personal desire for your wirless key to be
stored in an encrypted format then you have to do some different
configuration for the WPA stuff, which I have not dug into since the
above solution works for my needs.
Later, Seeker
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