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Newer page: | version 11 | Last edited on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 10:25:20 am | by AndreaBorgia | |
Older page: | version 9 | Last edited on Sunday, December 11, 2005 9:21:53 pm | by PhilippeNael | Revert |
@@ -120,10 +120,9 @@
!!![PCMCIA]/CardBus
By default, HotPlug in Debian (testing/unstable at least as of July 2004) won't automatically configure network interfaces.
-In /etc/default/hotplug, there is a variable named NET_AGENT_POLICY
-
that can be set to "all", "auto", or "hotplug", with hotplug being the
+In /etc/default/hotplug, there is a variable named NET_AGENT_POLICY (obsolete as of Aug 5, 2005)
that can be set to "all", "auto", or "hotplug", with hotplug being the
default. This refers to which entries in /etc/network/interfaces should
be handled by hotplug.
My laptop's /etc/network/interfaces file includes the following lines:
@@ -140,8 +139,8 @@
the following entries (It's an USR 5411 so I use the ndsiwrapper driver) :
<verbatim>
mapping hotplug
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
- pre-up wpa_supplicant -Bndiswrapper
-iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
+ pre-up wpa_supplicant -B -Dndiswrapper
-iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
pre-down killall wpa_supplicant
</verbatim>