Re: NetworkManager and wireless interfaces created by d-i (Re: Bug#606268:...)

[Filipus Klutiero <chealer@gmail.com>]

On 2012-04-04 17:02, Michael Biebl wrote:
> On 04.04.2012 22:48, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > On 04.04.2012 19:50, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
> > > I just reinstalled Debian and for the first time did it via my wireless
> > > network (with WPA encryption), without even requiring non-free firmware.
> > > It was disappointing after that to discover that using wireless during
> > > the install was what caused network-manager not to manage my wireless
> > > card, after the installation :-/
> > >
> > > I read the README and also tried managed=true to workaround, but that
> > > didn't do it for me. NetworkManager would show my wireless card as
> > > "Unavailable"... whatever that means. It reluctantly gave as only reason
> > > for that state that the device was now managed...
> > > d-i added this stanza to /etc/network/interfaces for my wireless card:
> > >
> > > > # The primary network interface
> > > > allow-hotplug wlan0
> > > > iface wlan0 inet dhcp
> > > >      wpa-ssid 1391
> > > >      wpa-psk  openssh5.1p1
> > > Commenting the allow-hotplug line managed to work around. It seems that
> > > wlan0 was up when network-manager started, and this caused it not to
> > > consider wlan0. After bringing wlan0 down and restarting
> > > network-manager, NetworkManager could control wlan0.
> > I thought d-i does *not* create any /e/n/i entries for wireless
> > connections anymore, so NM can properly manage the interface later on.
 d-i surely did here. To be exact, I "just" reinstalled on March 23rd, 
using a March 22nd i386 testing netinst. I didn't touch 
/etc/network/interfaces or play with the network after the install 
except through NetworkManager.