Re: wifi connection tool?

[Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@gmail.com>]

Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> writes:

> On Lu, 29 dec 14, 15:58:06, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>> 
>> This is for Network Manager (which I'm not using since it handles
>> the full network configuration, but I already have my own for
>> Ethernet, and I don't want it to be broken).
>
> If I'm not mistaken it can be configured to not handle connections 
> already handled by ifupdown.
>

Network devices which are configured in /etc/network/interfaces will
  typically be managed by ifupdown. Such devices will by default be
  marked as "unmanaged" in NetworkManager.

>From /usr/share/doc/network-manager/README.Debian

I used to run a configuration like that, so I can confirm that this
works indeed.

(For completeness' sake: I used to have the static network config of my
workstation configured on the box itself, until I decided that it would
be a lot simpler to just set up a static association on my DHCP server
and just let NM handle all the network issues on my clients)

Mart

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