On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 08:12:44PM -0600, Brian D. Hicks wrote: > I'm running debian on my laptop and there are two wireless networks I > use it on often. One of them requires I set the ESSID to a certain > value, and another does not. Now I know that you can do mapping in > /etc/network/interfaces, but I was wondering if there was a method where > the ifup script would first try not having a essid set, and then try it > with the essid of the network that requires it to be set. Have you looked at any of the laptop helper packages in Debian (apt-cache search laptop)? They can be very useful for configuring network laptops for a variety of networks. In particular, take a look at whereami, divine or laptop-net. With some combination of those packages you should be able to do what you want. Else you probably could hack ifup to do what you want, but I think that it would be less robust. -- Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) crumley at fields.space.umn.edu |Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ Never laugh at live dragons |Dmitry's free,Jon's next? http://faircopyright.org