Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0?

[Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk>]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2022, Stella Ashburne wrote:

> Dearie,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2022 at 3:10 AM
> > From: tomas@tuxteam.de
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0?
> >
> >
> > So if you have this in your /etc/network/interfaces somewhere:
> >
> >   ...
> >   ## Bahn ICE
> >   iface wlan0 inet dhcp
> >     wireless-essid WIFIonICE
> >     wireless-mode Auto
> >   ...
> >
> > (it's actually my current setting, BTW :) you could swap that
> > out to some file under interfaces.d.
>
> The contents of my current /etc/network/interfaces file are:
>
> # The primary network interface
> allow-hotplug wlp3s0
> iface wlp7s0 inet static
>        wpa-ssid JupiterRising
>        wpa-psk {a long string of alphanumeric characters}
>        address 192.168.1.99/24
>        gateway 192.168.1.1
>        # dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installed
>        dns-nameservers 1.1.1.1 8.8.8.8
>
> Are you saying that I can cut out the above contents and paste them into a file called wlp7s0 (whose path is /etc/network/interfaces.d/)?

Yes, but you need to have this in /e/n/i

source-directory /etc/network/interfaces.d