Re: WiFi after initial install
On Mon 05 Dec 2016 at 12:29:17 -0500, Henning Follmann wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 12:31:41AM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> > Hello the list!
> >
> >
> > I'm somewhat aware of systemd-networkd, and I know that it is super-easy
> > to set up a DHCP-based wired ethernet connection that way, and I also
> > know it is possible to do so with a WiFi connection too -- but I
> > strongly suspect that is not the "Debian way".
> >
> It is "one way" to set up your network.
> I would argue based on your description is one of the better ways to do it.
>
> Though we have some members of the purity police around here, there is no
> high priest who defines the "right" way.
Hello, hello, hello. Evening all. What is it we have here? Somebody not
using network-manager? A word in your King Lear, sonny boy....
> > The WiFi connection is secured with a password, and my access point is
> > also a DHCP server. I'm expecting to use DHCP to get an IP address as I
> > do with all other machines on my network.
> >
> > All my past Debian experience of setting up WiFi is pre-systemd /
> > pre-stretch, and a long time in my past so I have forgotten more than I
> > ever knew :) Outside Debian, I've done it on LFS using systemd-networkd
> > -- I know that can be made to work but it doesn't seem very Debianesque
> > to me.
> >
> > Any suggestions on what I should do to set this up?
>
> Go Systemd-networkd, it works great!
So does connman; systemd-networkd borrowed a few ideas from it. But what
about our old favorite - ifupdown?
--
Brian.
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