Re: network setup

[Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>]

If all you want is a single wireless connection which is activated when
the machine boots you do not need a wpa_supplicant.conf. Everything can
be done in /etc/network/interfaces. It is the simplest, most hassle-free
and most straightforward way to proceed.

First check that network-manager is not managing the interface you are
going to define in /e/n/i. /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf needs
to have

 [main]
 plugins=ifupdown,keyfile

 [ifupdown]
 managed=false

Also check the wireless interface name with 'ifconfig -a'. Previously
you said it was wlx00c0ca364bd2.

Now, into /etc/network/interfaces put

 allow-hotplug wlx00c0ca364bd2
 iface wlx00c0ca364bd2 inet dhcp
	wpa-ssid whatever
	wpa-psk  whatever

This is all you require in the file.

Reboot or use 'ifup -v wlx00c0ca364bd2'.


On Tue 13 Dec 2016 at 06:10:16 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:

> I'm trying for a single wireless connection.
> I wrote some stuff in /etc/network/interfaces and wrote some things in
> /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf and found command line documentation
> for bringing an internet connection up incomplete. Iwconfig has to be given
> the interface and told just about everything I put into
> /etc/network/interfaces but at least iwconfig preserves what I tell it
> across reboots.  When I had a graphical user interface environment up I used
> a terminal and ran nmtui with no success too, so I've been around the block.