Ok, so I haven't looked at wpasupplicant yet, but is there any kind of quick and dirty tutorial on how to get debian up and running on a wireless network? I have both wired and wireless connections here, and would like ot be able to use the wireless when I move from office to office (actually from my home office to the family room :-) ). -----Original Message----- From: Jason White [mailto:jason@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 11:17 PM To: speakup at linux-speakup.org Subject: Re: /etc/network/interfaces Gregory Nowak <greg at gregn.net> wrote: > It's been a while since I had access to multiple networks. From what I > recall, each connection requires its own wlan0 configuration block > (I.E. you can't have multiple network configurations for the same wlan > interface). You also can't have multiple wlan0 interfaces defined at > the same time, or you'll get an error. > My recollection is that you can label the connections in the interfaces file, and then bring up the right connection manually with the ifup command. > My quick and dirty work around was to comment out the network I didn't > want to use, and to uncomment the one I did. If you don't want to play > with commenting and uncommenting your interfaces file every time you > want to connect to a different network, then wpasupplicant can be > configured to connect to multiple networks, and to prefer one over > another if they are both in range. Have a look at the wpa_supplicant, > and wpa_supplicant.conf man pages. Oh yes, and from what I recall, > wpasupplicant does integrate nicely with your interfaces file. It's the right tool to use for wireless networks, especially if they're using WPa 2, as they should be for security reasons. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at linux-speakup.org http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
