lilzz
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Having trouble on ifdown

Mon Jun 23, 2014 7:13 am

ifconfig shows wlan0 is up.

so, I did ifdown wlan0 but it said wlan0 is not configured. why? it show up in ifconfig.

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DougieLawson
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Re: Having trouble on ifdown

Mon Jun 23, 2014 7:17 am

The two programs are not looking at the same status bits. ifupdown does a lot more than ifconfig.

Try
ifdown --force wlan0
ifup wlan0
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