Package: ifupdown
Version: 0.6.10
Severity: normal
In my /etc/network/interfaces I have the following stanza for 'wlan0':
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid network
(where 'network' is the actual essid of the wlan). This was working
correctly until I upgraded ifupdown/wireless-tools around one month
ago. I cannot really tell the exact version where the problem was
introduced.
If I do a 'ifup wlan0', the interface is brought up, and an address is
_also_ assigned through dhcp correctly:
# ifconfig wlan0
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:31:97:11:55
inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255
Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:565789 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:385361 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:717641461 (684.3 MiB) TX bytes:46560245 (44.4 MiB)
which is a mistery to me since the association to the 'network' essid is
immediately lost afterwards:
# iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=27
dBm Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
somewhere during the 'ifup' process 'essid' is reset.
If I set the essid manually with iwconfig the interface works correctly.
wireless-tools is at 30~pre9-4.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
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