Configuration of WIFI

[darkdrgn2k]

Related to #317 and #319

Configuration of WiFi adapters is problematic:

WLANx moves around

• You cant guarantee (for example) that onboard wifi will always be wlan0 and a use will be wlan1. Sometimes wlan0 will be usb on boot
• two usb devices may note be wlan0 and wlan1

Current Access Point Workaround

• Access point is renamed to wlan-ap using the onboard driver. There will always? be only way onboard-driver on the board so it works

Locking wireless devices by mac address

• Some devices have mac addresses that change between reboots :(
• USB devices that are swapped between boards

problem

Cant use macs - as they are not persistent enough Cant use drivers cause you cant have two same type devices do two different things

ISSUE: How do you identify what device is doing what in the config.

[simplymathematics]

In Ubuntu, there's an install option about making predictable interface names. I wonder if raslbian/Debian have the same.

It works by numbering the interfaces by Mac address.

[darkdrgn2k]

predictable is the first thing we disable because it's not that predictable esp with broken hardware that screws up.mac addresses.