Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> writes: > Yes, a user can do anything with ifconfig if his time has no value. I am > happily using network manager on my laptop, because unlike ifconfig it's > easy to configure for use on new wireless networks. > > I am not happy that network manager bypasses ifconfig to do this; I would > have much preferred a daemon that could properly integrate with the existing > infrastructure we had. But neither that, nor you calling me a stupid user, > is much motivation for me to go back to the pain of managing wireless > connections via ifupdown.
I not going to argue against using network manager for that particular use case. It does provide a nice GUI for entering credentials etc. But I will claim that using ifupdown is also easy, given that you can accept a CLI instead of a GUI: You need to 1) create a /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf with something like ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev ## uncomment this entry to automatically connect to any open network #network={ # ssid="" # key_mgmt=NONE #} 2) add this (possibly with another device name) to /etc/network/interfaces: allow-hotplug wlan0 iface wlan0 inet manual wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf iface default inet dhcp 3) run wpa_cli in a terminal as a user in the netdev group Adding new networks and other management tasks can easily be done in the wpa_cli shell. IMHO easier than using NM, as it won't interfere with e.g. any temporary address I've configured manually. But this is of course a highly subjective opinion. Bjørn -- 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/87aag5geyj....@nemi.mork.no