Wireless network profiles

[Graham White]

Doesn't seem to work. When I try to do it by hand,
I get error messages from ifup saying
"interface eth1 already configured" (whether it's working
or not): and the graphical networking configurator, although
it does show both the home and work interfaces, doesn't
seem able to do anything with them. (That is, I can click on them
and the check box gets ticked for a few seconds, but reverts
to being unticked). 

And generally I get a feeling with this stuff that state is
being kept somewhere that I don't know about: the actual networking
behaviour of the system seems curiously unresponsive to what
I write in /etc/network/interfaces, and quite often the graphical
networking configurator will *rewrite the contents*
of /etc/network/interfaces all by itself. I would find this more
or less understandable (if patronising) if you could actually get
by with what you're permitted to enter into the
graphical network configurator, but, quite often, you can't
(you can't put in the channel for a wireless network, for example). 
So what's the real story here?

Graham

On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 0 :19 -0500, babui wrote:
> What I have are different configurations in the /etc/network/interfaces.
> 
> 
> For instance, I have:
> 
> mapping wlan0
> map HOMEW homew
> map WORKW workw
> 
> iface homew inet static
> address 192.168.0.4
> gateway 192.168.0.3
> wireless_mode ad-hoc
> wireless_essid babuiw
> 
> iface workw inet dhcp
> wireless_mode managed
> wireless_essid any
> 
> 
> And to bring up the configuration I want I use 
> 
> $ sudo ifup wlan0=homew 
> 
> or
> 
> $ sudo ifup wlan0=workw
> 
> 
> Hope it will be useful for you.
> 
> Babui[INDENT]
> 
> 
> -- 
> babui
>