[Debian-eeepc-devel] eeepc-acpi-scripts_1.0_i386.changes ACCEPTED

Ben Armstrong synrg at sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca
Thu Feb 28 02:03:12 UTC 2008


Resending, as my email was misconfigured and only just now fixed ...

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:13:05 -0400
Ben Armstrong <synrg at sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca> wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:50:35 +0100
> leandro noferini <lnoferin at cybervalley.org> wrote:
> > /etc/network/interfaces
> > 
> > allow hotplug ath0
> > iface ath0 inet manual
> > 	wireless_key off
> > 	wireless_mode managed
> > 	wireless_essid any
> > 	wpa-driver madwifi
> > 	wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa.conf
> 
> Don't use the madwifi backend.  According to the doc, wext is preferred
> and I have found works just fine.
> 
> As for the other lines, I'm not sure why you have them in there.  My
> own ath0 stanza is much simpler:
> 
> iface ath0 inet manual
>         wpa-driver wext
>         wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
> 
> The wireless parameters are better off being managed in the network
> stanzas in wpa_supplicant.conf I think.
> 
> Ben
> 
> > (and the same stanzas for the networks)
> > 



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