Re: your mail

[Mike Beattie <mjb@debian.org>]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 08:56:44PM -0500, ronin2@bellatlantic.net wrote:
> Where can I read about The Debian Way of letting /e/n/interfaces handle
> pcmcia?

man 5 interfaces

e.g: My wireless card is eth1:  (builtin ethernet is eth0)

/etc/network/interfaces has:
...
mapping eth1
    script /etc/network/ifscheme

########################################################
# Home

iface eth1-home inet dhcp
    wireless_nick toolbox
    wireless_mode managed
    wireless_essid blah
    wireless_key 's:12345'

########################################################
# Others...
...
etc.

(for the ifscheme script, see http://bugs.debian.org/154444)

And it Just Works(tm), So, you can see that there is no difference between
using interfaces(5) for a builtin card, or a pcmcia card. The point is, that
network.opts does the magic of calling ifup or ifdown for you, if you leave
the configuration alone.

Mike.
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