Re: what brings up the wireless network interface

2007-08-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > I mentioned this in my original post. I will say it agin. Even after the > stanza specific to wireless card is commented out, and even after doing > > sudo ifconfig eth2 down Suggestion: Uncomment the eth2 stanza, 'sudo ifdown eth2', comment out the stanza. All sho

Re: what brings up the wireless network interface

2007-08-08 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Using Debian stable (Etch), 2.6.18-4-686 kernel on Debian Dell Inspiron e1505. The wireless card (from lshw output is) The relevant stanza in /etc/network/interfaces is # allow-hotplug eth2 # auto eth2 # iface eth2 inet dhcp # wireless-essid So

Re: what brings up the wireless network interface

2007-08-08 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Chris Lale wrote: > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: >> Using Debian stable (Etch), 2.6.18-4-686 kernel on Debian Dell Inspiron >> e1505. The wireless card (from lshw output is) >> > [...] >> >> But I dont know how to prevent the automatic configuring of this wireless >> device. I do not want to rem

Re: what brings up the wireless network interface

2007-08-08 Thread Chris Lale
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Using Debian stable (Etch), 2.6.18-4-686 kernel on Debian Dell Inspiron > e1505. The wireless card (from lshw output is) > [...] > > But I dont know how to prevent the automatic configuring of this wireless > device. I do not want to remove dhclient since it is esse

Re: what brings up the wireless network interface

2007-08-07 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > is NetworkManager running? if so, surf to it on the desktop and turn > off "Enable Roaming" or whatever it is for that card. > No. NetworkManager is not installed on this system. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://m

Re: what brings up the wireless network interface

2007-08-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 12:19:44PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Using Debian stable (Etch), 2.6.18-4-686 kernel on Debian Dell Inspiron > e1505. The wireless card (from lshw output is) > [...] > The relevant stanza in /etc/network/interfaces is > > # allow-hotplug eth2 > # auto eth2 > #

what brings up the wireless network interface

2007-08-07 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Using Debian stable (Etch), 2.6.18-4-686 kernel on Debian Dell Inspiron e1505. The wireless card (from lshw output is) *-network DISABLED description: Wireless interface product: PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: [EM