On Tue 06 Mar 2018 at 18:34:27 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> bw writes ("Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation"):
> > I think the idea needs to be talked over a little better, because using
> > e/n/i for wireless by default after first boot has implications if the
> > user (who is clueless) later installs a desktop environment.
>
> If installing a desktop environment, after putting the wireless in
> /e/n/i, does not work, then that is a bug in the desktop environment,
> surely ?
Most probably. But desktop environments were not the subject of this
thread. (Sorry for trying to keep on-topic).
> In practice I would expect the config in /e/n/i to keep working
> because nowadays network-manager will ignore things in /e/n/i. The
> difficulty would only come if you
> - used the installer to install a bare system over wifi
That difficulty is exactly the subject of this thread. The rest of this
post is snipped because it side-steps addressing the issue. What is put
in /e/n/i ceases to work because it is obliterated by the installer for
reasons unknown.
One user calls it a "sick joke". After five years and with no attempt
to rectify the situation, I'm beginning to have sympathy with that view.
(Yes, I know we are all volunteers).
--
Brian.
> - later install network-manager or wicd
> - then expect the system to give you a gui prompt for new wifi
> networks, rather than expect to have to edit /e/n/i
>
> It would be possible for the n-m and wicd packages to spot when this
> is happening and offer to take over the interface. And I do think
> that in the absence of code to do that, it would be more important to
> make the barebones system work in the first place, than to improve the
> behaviour you later install n-m.
>
> (I'm not sure if what I say about wicd is right. I use n-m on
> machines I have where the user needs to switch between various network
> connections, wifi networks, etc.)
>
> > I'd hate to see the bug tracker turned into a discussion forum though.
>
> The bug tyracker is precisely the right place to discuss how to solve
> a particular bug. So I have CC'd it.
>
> Ian.
>
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