Proposal to add patches to netcfg (#682737)
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
Thanks,
Sorina
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