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Re: WiFi after initial install

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On 12/5/2016 12:00 PM, Seeker wrote:
> On 12/5/2016 7:31 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote:
>

>>
>> All my past Debian experience of setting up WiFi is pre-systemd /
>> pre-stretch, and a long time in my past so I have forgotten more
>> than I ever knew :) Outside Debian, I've done it on LFS using
>> systemd-networkd -- I know that can be made to work but it doesn't
>> seem very Debianesque to me.
>>
>> Any suggestions on what I should do to set this up?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Mark
>>
>
> If your past experience is doing the setup in
> '/etc/network/interfaces'
>
> That has not changed. At least the way I do it has not changed.
>
> I'm running Debian unstable, with resolvconf installed so I can put
> the DNS name servers in the iterfaces file. I use static IP addresses
> so my wireless config looks something like....
>
> iface wlan0 inet static address X.X.X.X netmask X.X.X.X gateway
> X.X.X.X dns-nameservers X.X.X.X X.X.X.X wpa-ssid your_ssid wpa-psk
> Your_Wireless_Key
>
> The only changes to my wireless configuration over the years have
> been due to interface name changes and at some point (probably when
> I switched from WEP to WPA) the wireless part went from
>
> wireless-ssid wireless-psk
>
> to
>
> wpa-ssid wpa-psk
>
> so for dhcp should be something like.
>
> iface wlan0 inet dhcp wpa-ssid your_ssid wpa-psk Your_Wireless_Key
>
Forgot to include that you also need a line that tells debian you want
the interface brought up during boot.

auto wlan0

in my case wlan0, but needs to match whatever name Debian gives your
network interface.

> If you have a need or just personal desire for your wirless key to
> be stored in an encrypted format then you have to do some different
> configuration for the WPA stuff, which I have not dug into since the
> above solution works for my needs.
>
> Later, Seeker
>

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WiFi after initial install Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-12-05 16:40 +0100
  Re: WiFi after initial install Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2016-12-05 18:30 +0100
    Re: WiFi after initial install Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-12-05 18:50 +0100
  Re: WiFi after initial install Seeker <seeker5528@comcast.net> - 2016-12-05 21:10 +0100
    Re: WiFi after initial install Seeker <seeker5528@comcast.net> - 2016-12-05 21:40 +0100
      Re: WiFi after initial install Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-12-06 00:10 +0100
        Re: WiFi after initial install Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-12-06 20:30 +0100
          Re: WiFi after initial install Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2016-12-06 21:10 +0100
            Re: WiFi after initial install Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-12-06 23:30 +0100
              Re: WiFi after initial install Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-12-07 15:10 +0100
    Re: WiFi after initial install Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2016-12-06 02:40 +0100
  Re: WiFi after initial install Michael Biebl <email@michaelbiebl.de> - 2016-12-05 22:40 +0100

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