Sorina - Gabriela Sandu <sandu.sor...@gmail.com> (16/09/2012): > Hello! > > In #682737 [1] is stated that netcfg writes configuration for wireless > interface in /etc/network/interfaces and therefor Wi-Fi card is not > managed by Network-Manager. > > For that matter, I would like to propose a patch to add support for > netcfg to write a Network Manager config file and modify the > finish-install script so that it copies to target either the nm-config > file or a full /e/n/i config, according to a reasonable default and > user's choice. This also contain a new question, > netcfg/target_network_config, which is asked with a medium priority in > finish-install, the default being also determined in the finish > install, such as: > - if NM is installed, default = NM configuration > - if NM is not installed and the install was over wired, default = /e/n/i > config > - if NM is not installed and the install was over wireless, default = > do not configure network > > All the related changes can be found in people/sorina/write_config > branch [2]. Also, a image containing all the changes can be found at > [3]. The config file for NM is written according to the specifications > here [4]. > > What do you think about this? Do you believe it could be used at the moment? > > > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=682737 > [2] > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=d-i/netcfg.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/people/sorina/write_config > [3] http://swarm.cs.pub.ro/~sorina/debian/images/08_14_write_config.iso > [4] http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/developers/settings-spec-08.html
NM/Gnome folks: sorry to be a pain but we really need an answer *NOW*. Michael? Anyone else? Mraw, KiBi.
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