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Re: WiFi after initial install

wpa_passphrase ssid passphrase >>/etc/network/interfaces
Should handle encrypted keys and put them where they're needed.
On Mon, 5 Dec 2016, Seeker wrote: 


Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 15:00:44
From: Seeker <seeker5528@comcast.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: WiFi after initial install
Resent-Date: Mon,  5 Dec 2016 20:09:37 +0000 (UTC)
Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org

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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