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. -- Brian.