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