On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 04:54:17PM +0200, Stella Ashburne wrote: > Hi Henning > > > Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2021 at 10:14 PM > > From: "Henning Follmann" <hfollm...@itcfollmann.com> > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: iwd: Using iwd to connect to a wireless network (Part 1 - > > Connection status show OK but unable to surf the net) > > > > > > That depends. How did you get their e-mail address? > > Was it from the project webpage? Do they encourage anybody to > > send them direct mail? > > Them yes. > > > Yes, their email address are displayed on the project's website.
Wow, we do live in a different reality. I checked the page https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/wireless/iwd.git/ I do not see any of their e-mail address displayed there. So you followed the link to the mailing list and scraped the e-mails from there? > > No, they didn't mention that any Tom, Dick and Harry are welcome to write to > them. I didn't think so. > > > What baffels me is though, at what length someone would go to not use the > > default > > methods to connect via wifi. Especially when they showed limited experience > > in networking in the first place. > > > Pray thee, what are the default methods that you speak of? Well, again the first thing I would check is the debian documentation. Lets look at the "The Debian Administrator's Handbook" section 8.2 https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-handbook/sect.network-config.en.html And here we find - quote: "NOTE NetworkManager If Network Manager is particularly recommended in roaming setups (see Section 8.2.5, “Automatic Network Configuration for Roaming Users”), it is also perfectly usable as the default network management tool. You can create “System connections” that are used as soon as the computer boots either manually with a .ini-like file in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/ or through a graphical tool (nm-connection-editor). If you were using ifupdown, just remember to deactivate the entries in /etc/network/interfaces that you want Network Manager to handle." > > My OS is plain Debian 11 with just lxqt-core and lightdm installed. I'm tired > of using Gnome. again network-manager does not need GNOME. It works perfectly fine whithout any DE and comes with a cli frontend (nmcli). next choice through /e/n/i > > Indeed, I've very limited networking and that's why I'm motivated to learn > how to use iwd to surf the net. > right, sigh, you are willing to learn what you already decided on. Please consider smaller steps. Install your debian initially just by following the predesigned way. Learn how to use it, gain knowledge and confidence from there, then venture to more challenging topics. I think you will be much happier this way. -H -- Henning Follmann | hfollm...@itcfollmann.com
