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Bug#727740: installation-reports: wireless and wired network works in the installer but not transfered to the installed system



On Sun 27 Oct 2013 at 07:37:40 +0100, Holger Wansing wrote:

> Nick Gawronski <nick@nickgawronski.com> wrote:
> > Overall install:        [E network configuration was not transfered to 
> > installed system so after I booted my system I had no internet access ]
> 
> 
> Now you are done with a static /etc/network/interfaces file.

As far as I can determine, documentation describing netcfg's behaviour
when writing /e/n/i at the end of the install is non-existant. It appears
to follow a principle of producing maximum surprise. I'll mention that
#709017 also has the same origin as this bug

> Only in case you might want a flexible network management tool:
> apart from network-manager, which is not usable for blind people,
> there is also the wicd daemon for automatic network configuration, which 
> has an ncurses (text-based) client as user interface.

Another text-based network management tool is ceni. It is maintained by
the same team which maintains Debian's wpasupplicant and is at

  http://debian.tu-bs.de/project/aptosid/debian/pool/main/c/ceni/ceni_2.26_all.deb


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