Re: newbie questions- laptop wireless for Wheezy with Gnome
On Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:32:29 -0700, keitho wrote:
>> On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:02:37 -0700, keitho wrote:
(...)
>> BTW, the package which contains the applet is "network-manager-gnome"
>> which you seem to have installed so you should be able to launch it by
>> running "nm-applet --sm-disable".
> Thank you for replying.
>
> It turns out that I did have the applet, but still could not connect. I
> finally figured out that the problem was due to my misunderstanding the
> difference between "managed" and "not managed"... I had inadvertently
> left some configuration info in my /etc/network/interfaces file that was
> interfering with the network-manager. After I removed the lines from the
> interfaces file everything now works as expected.
Great! :-)
> Thank you again, you have been very helpful to me, and others on the
> debian-users list, more than once.
You're welcome.
> I would also like to know how I can configure a console laptop (one with
> no gui- CLI only) to access wireless in the same manner- automatic
> detection of available wireless networks and a way to enter a key when
> necessary. Can someone point me to a tutorial that would help me?
Mmm, I think network manager can be also used from command line
("nmcli"), but I'm not sure about its full capabilities :-?
(...)
Look, this article may help, I think it points to almost all of the
possibilities:
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Configure wireless network from the command line
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/21541/configure-wireless-network-from-the-command-line
***
Another option could be avoiding NM to manage the wifi interface and manually
set the required settings by means of "/etc/network/interfaces" in join with
wpa_supplicant, but this method seems annoying for a "road warrior"
configuration :-):
http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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