Re: Network setup by installer
On Fri 19 Jan 2018 at 15:21:31 (+0000), Brian wrote:
> On Fri 19 Jan 2018 at 08:27:22 -0600, David Wright wrote:
>
> > On Fri 19 Jan 2018 at 22:10:39 (+0900), Mark Fletcher wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Yes, AIUI it doesn't try to read our minds but assumes the
> > installation methid is what will be used. And with a wired
> > interface configured, if you reboot with a wire connected,
> > the system will bring it up.
>
> I'm fine with that.
>
> > With wireless, there's no real equivalent to the wire
> > being connected. Even when installed and configured with
> > wireless, rebooting doesn't automatically bring up a
> > network; you need to type ifup.
>
> I'm not fine with this. Given a WAP and a passphrase ifupdown connects
> automatically here. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you.
Yes, sorry, I misremembered, as it was a while since I'd done
a wireless installation. Here's the results of doing one just
now. It wasn't so much the ifup that was needed as populating
/etc/network/interfaces itself.
$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
$
Cheers,
David.
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