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.