Re: 9.1.0 : netinst : installs well, but useless after firstboot

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

On Sat 07 Oct 2017 at 14:01:13 -0500, David Wright wrote:

> On Sat 07 Oct 2017 at 11:11:19 (+0100), Brian wrote:
> > On Fri 06 Oct 2017 at 21:39:28 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri 06 Oct 2017 at 23:49:01 (+0100), Brian wrote:
> > > > On Fri 06 Oct 2017 at 17:27:57 -0400, Henning Follmann wrote:
> 
> > > > > There is a fairly good example how to do it here:
> > > > > https://sunweavers.net/blog/node/34
> > > > > 
> > > > > It is definitely a better setup than /e/n/i.
> > > > 
> > > > Does it handle wireless roaming? ifupdown + wpa_supplicant does.
> > > 
> > > What does one do when staying in, say, a new hotel?
> > 
> > Networks are managed by a file in /etc/wpa_supplicant. The file can be
> > edited by hand or a network added with wpagui,
> 
> So that's either being root or running X?
> 
> Whereas wicd has a TUI.

Running X. The user is in the netdev group.

-- 
Brian.