Bug#360360: [Linux-wlan-ng-devel] Bug#360360: fails to bring up my wlan interface

[Enrico Tassi]

On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 06:07:37PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote:
> Enrico Tassi wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 04:31:12PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote:
> > The Debian version users network/interfaces to call the lwng utility
> > (to set essid, key, etc...).
> 
> Yes, thats what I want to use...

ok

> Hmm I'm not sure if i understand correctly, I've set up
> /etc/network/interfaces like I'd to it with "normal" (wlan) interfaces
> which are supported directly by wireless-tools. (BTW: Thanks very much
> for trying to make wlan-ng wireless-tools compatible!) But somehow the
> "translation" between the ifup-commands and the wlan-ng-commands behind
> seems to fail.

the keywords are not the same for standard wireless-tools (some are
shared but not all). this is because lwng does not implement wireless
extension properly :(

> Please note that I'm using an USB-Wlan-Adapter -- I know (and see ^^)

me too. I noticed a problem (I think it is related with udev.. but not
sure). Not every time I plug the device, the device sets up correctly.

trying twice is usually enough

> this is currently not very well integrated, but since it worked with a
> previous (non-debian) version of wlan-ng, I hope we can fix it together.

sure
 
> Please let me know if I can provide you with more detailed information.

I've no big ideas... except 
1) check that you used lwng keywords
2) you may try to temporarily vome away the
     network/if-(pre|post)/wireless-tools files
   (to throw away some variables) and do a tail -f /ver/log/messages 
   before plugging the device

ciao
-- 
Enrico Tassi