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Re: WiFi after initial install

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wpa_passphrase ssid passphrase >>/etc/network/interfaces
Should handle encrypted keys and put them where they're needed.
On Mon, 5 
Dec 
2016, Seeker wrote:

> Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 15:00:44
> From: Seeker <seeker5528@comcast.net>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: WiFi after initial install
> Resent-Date: Mon,  5 Dec 2016 20:09:37 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> 
> 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
>
> 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
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