wireless-tools break ppp devices
Bug #268519 reported by
Hadmut Danisch
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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wireless-tools (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: wireless-tools
Hi,
/etc/interfaces
$IFCONFIG "$IFACE" up
under all circumstances and for all interfaces, even the non-wireless ones.
This breaks the configuration of PPP devices, since these devices do not
yet exist at this time and before pppd has become active. Therefore,
the $IFACE does not yet exist and the script and thus the device configuration
aborts with an error message. When wireless-tools are installed,
things like ifup ppp0 don't work anymore.
The script should not fiddle around with anything not closely related
to wireless things.
regards
Hadmut
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This bug was fixed in the package wireless-tools - 29-1.1ubuntu2
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wireless-tools (29-1.1ubuntu2) jaunty; urgency=low
* Revert change to bring up the interface before changing wireless
settings; the softmac driver this was implemented for is now
obsolete, no other drivers are reported to need it, and it
introduces other problems such as breaking PPP interfaces
(LP: #268519) and preventing configuration of some settings such as
hardware addresses (LP: #219520).
-- Steve Langasek <email address hidden> Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:13:27 +0000