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I'm facing a issue with my wireless configuration in Zentyal Linux Server. I configured my wifi network setting in /etc/network/interfaces like this :

# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto wlan1
iface wlan1 inet dhcp
wireless-essid <name>
wireless-key1 <key>
address 192.168.1.100
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1
...

It is working fine but when i restart my Server. Network settings get removed every time and shows following lines only :

# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

Every time i have to write these settings again to start my wifi. What is going on, and how can I fix this ?

Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
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Rakesh Patel
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  • Zentyal has a web interface. I guess that the web interface overwrites configuration files, so you should either use the web interface or use Ubuntu if you want to configure things the normal way. – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' Aug 03 '14 at 20:42

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Zentyal does not use "ordinary" configuration files; your setup will be erased every time you restart the server. In order to allow for admin-made configuration options, Zentyal allows for "hooks", scripts that will get executed along the main configuration files.

It isn't that complicated: if you have your wpa-supplicant already set up and working, just add this to your 

/etc/zentyal/hooks/network.postsetconf

file (you can make a copy of one of the templates in that directory as well): 

#!/bin/sh
export WLAN_IFACE="wlan0"
export WLAN_ESSID="YOUR_SSID"
export WLAN_CONF="wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf"
/usr/share/zentyal-network/setup-wireless
exit 0

That should now start up your wifi automatically.

Rado
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