On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 07:08:19AM +0100, Brett Parker wrote: > On 05 Apr 00:55, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 10:03:12PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > > What I do not understand is WHY the Debian Project can not do an install > > > in two steps. I mean installing the bare base using "ifupdown" and if > > > the user choose the Desktop-Task replace it with NM. > > > > AFAICT, the main concerns with the current ifupdown-based installation > > process is that its suport of wireless networks is very limited: only > > WEP is supported, and there are problems with lost connections. I am > > pretty sure that these problems may be addressed without replacing all > > the infrastructure and switching to NM, though. > > It is?! I better tell my /etc/network/interfaces that those wpa keys in > there shouldn't work...
Well, I guess you did not read the text you replied to. That was about the problems with Debian installer, not with ifupdown-based setups in general. As you may have noticed, I have been trying to convince people that ifupdown and wpa may work perfectly when properly configured since yesterday. Therefore I believe that the known problems with installer can be actually solved without switching to NM. > (I use ifupdown on my laptop *lots*, it has *several* wireless > configurations in /etc/network/interfaces, and a magical mapping script > that uses iwlist scan to check where we are... it all "just works" > including the WPA configuration...) So do I, and it just works. -- Stanislav -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110405065935.GA3684@kaiba.homelan