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

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

On Tue, 1 Mar 2022, Stella Ashburne wrote:

> Dearie
>
> Thanks for your clarification.
>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2022 at 8:16 PM
> > From: "Tim Woodall" <debianuser@woodall.me.uk>
> > To: "Stella Ashburne" <rewefie@gmx.com>
> > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0?
> >
> > 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?
> > >
> > >
> > > 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
>
> Did you mean /etc/network/interfaces AND /etc/network/interfaces.d/wlp3s0 each must have the following contents:
>
> # The primary network interface
> allow-hotplug wlp3s0
> iface wlp3s0 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
>
>
> > source-directory /etc/network/interfaces.d
> What did you mean by source-directory /etc/network/interfaces.d ? I am a bit confused.
>
> Best regards.
>
> Stella

My /etc/network/interfaces has:
# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
# Include files from /etc/network/interfaces.d:
source-directory /etc/network/interfaces.d


and then in /etc/network/interfaces.d I have a separate file for each
interface I want to configure.