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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