On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 10:56 -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote: > Is there an easy way to get a Linux laptop to connect to one of > a number of wireless networks, based on which ESSID it sees? > > Last time I checked (kernel has upgraded since), my wifi gets kind of > finicky if it tries to connect to a WAP that isn't there. > (e.g., if I leave my home WAP, which requires a key, in > /etc/network/interfaces but then go boot up at Mishka's or Common Grounds, > it seemed like I needed to alter 'interfaces' and then do a reboot to > ever get it to work... just running 'sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart' > didn't seem enough.)
`/etc/init.d/networking restart` is a bit drastic a hammer for just about anything dealing with network interfaces. Use the `ifup` and `ifdown` commands instead. --Ken -- Ken (Chanoch) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory. Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology. http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/
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