[vox-tech] Wireless wonders - iwconfig (device) essid (ESSID) not registering

[Richard Burkhart]

Wade Pinkston wrote:
> When it does this to me I go and manually edit the ifcfg-wlan0 file. 
> Usually that will get it done and behaving correctly.

... unfortunately, this is a  Debian install (I probably should have 
mentioned that in the last email).

... it doesn't have  an ifcfg-wlan0 file.  Those configurations are done 
in /etc/network/interfaces.    I've edited that one.  No luck.