Hello, I was testing my USB WLAN stick on a lenny system
blackbox:~# lsusb |grep Link Bus 008 Device 002: ID 2001:3c00 D-Link Corp. [hex] DWL-G122 802.11g rev. B1 [ralink] blackbox:~# It was running flawless on an etch laptop. The intention was to avoid having an upgraded lenny laptop without wireless. I will send in an upgrade report to help to make lenny even better :-) [footnote: I was wondering if the debian-release list is the right place or if a bug report against upgrade-reports is appropriate for an upgrade-report.] Getting the WLAN stick running was not smooth (and it still does not yet work in my wpa wireless network). But this is a different issue: http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2008/12/msg01257.html While going through the wireless setup for the stick, I noticed, that I am pretty lost, when it comes to the wireless configuration in /etc/network/interfaces.The interfaces(5) man page points to iwconfig(8) and wireless(7) The wireless manpage and /usr/share/doc/wireless-tools/DISTRIBUTIONS.txt.gz refer to Debian 3.0 (or later), I was wondering if this information is outdated? The wpa-* statements in /etc/network/interfaces guided me to to wpa_supplicant which comes with good documentation in /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/. Does that mean that the wireless pointer in interfaces(5) is incomplete? I am wondering if there is documentation for the wireless setup in /etc/network/interfaces to get started for an inexperienced wireless user like me and I just did not find the getting started document. If not, I am wondering if it is worth to add a reference into the interfaces man page to wpasupplicant and add a paragraph what the wireless-tools and what wpasupplicant is used for. I am also frequently looking for example configurations for the most common setups (WEP, WPA, WPA2, etc...), but I did not find these either. But I cannot tell if these would cover a subset of APs that this would be worthwhile. I cc'ed Anthony, because he is maintainer of the ifupdown package which contains the interfaces manpage... Thanks, Rainer -- Rainer Dorsch Lärchenstr. 6 D-72135 Dettenhausen 07157-734133 email: rdor...@web.de jabber: rdor...@jabber.org GPG Fingerprint: 5966 C54C 2B3C 42CC 1F4F 8F59 E3A8 C538 7519 141E Full GPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org