Re: Network setup by installer

[Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 06:43:10AM +0100, john doe wrote:
> On 1/19/2018 12:45 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> > Hello the list
> > 
> > Can anyone point me at documentation of how the installer sets up
> > network interfaces, out of the several ways there are to do it?
> > 
> > I've done a couple of installs of Stretch, one when it was still testing
> > and one recently, on different hardware that both had both wired and
> > wireless network interfaces. In both cases I chose to install using the
> > wired interface even though for normal usage the computer will use the
> > wireless interface. The result in both cases was a machine that had its
> > wired interface configured but not its wireless one.
> > 
> > In both cases I can configure the wireless LAN using the desktop gui
> > widget (KDE in one case, MATE in the other) but then the wireless LAN
> > does not become available until someone logs in.
> > 
> > I'd like to be able to log in remotely before anyone logs in locally, so
> > need the wireless network interface up before login.
> > 
> 
> It is unclear to me why you can't configure the wireless interface using ssh
> through the wired interface?

Thanks for replying. I am not sure what problem you are trying to solve, 
but I am not sure how your suggestion relates to the problem I laid out 
in my original post. Apologies if I am misunderstanding you. I'm not 
trying to work around the fact that the wireless connection doesn't come 
up until login, but to fix it so that it does.

I want to set up my wireless via the same mechanism that the installer 
set up my wired ethernet so that wireless comes up automatically at 
boot.

So, I return to the essential question, which I led with in my original 
post, which is which method does the installer use to set up networking, 
and where can I find documentation on that so I can replicate it for my 
wireless connection?

Thanks

Mark