Re: WiFi after initial install
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NetworkManager#Connect_to_network_with_secret_on_boot
Am 5. Dezember 2016 16:31:41 MEZ, schrieb Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com>:
>Hello the list!
>
>I have a Mini-ITX PC, a few months old, running KDE on Stretch.
>
>When I installed it, I used a Stretch netinst image burned to a USB
>stick and had the wired ethernet plugged in, for speed during the
>installation. (and also because I didn't know what fun and games I'd
>end
>up having with firmware if I tried to install with WiFi).
>
>After the duly-installed machine was located in its final home, well
>out
>of reach of ethernet cables, I set up the WiFi using native KDE network
>
>tool thingy (bottom right corner of the screen).
>
>This works but has the, to me significant, disadvantage that if a user
>has not logged into the machine, it is not connected to the network. So
>
>I can't fire up the machine and then log into it remotely from my other
>
>computers to do remote maintenance etc.
>
>It also seems to lose the network when the machine locks, but I am not
>sure about this, as the machine is right on the edge of the WiFi
>router's range, so it could be just getting lost when it goes quiet. I
>have purchased a WiFi extension and will be setting it up once I have
>networking more comfortably installed on this box.
>
>So, what I'd like to do, is set up WiFi networking on this box the
>"right", up to date, "Debian" way, so it becomes available on boot and
>doesn't require someone to have logged into KDE before the machine can
>be accessed remotely.
>
>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".
>
>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?
>
>TIA
>
>Mark
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