On 2025-11-21 15:37:18 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Sun 16 Nov 2025 at 01:19:35 (+0100), Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > I installed my new laptop from a USB memory stick with a netinst > > image + wifi I think. But wpasupplicant alone is not practical. > > I'm not quite sure why you say wpasupplicant alone.
I meant without an additional interface. This was more or less needed in 2009, but I don't remember the issues. Then I quickly looked again in 2022, but I don't remember exactly, except that: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1012844 (which eventually got fixed). > > > You don't need any of the DE, servers, etc checked for that. If you > > > want Bigsy's specific choice, network-manager, then you're probably > > > going to have to install it yourself. > > > > I'm wondering whether ifupdown configuration set up at install > > time (e.g. in case of Ethernet network) could be in the way if > > the intent is to use network-manager. > > If you want NM to manage an interface, comment out its > configuration in /etc/network/interfaces or mangle its > filename in /etc/network/interfaces.d/ to hide it. > (Debian naming conventions.) Something that one shouldn't have to do. There should be a way to get NM installed at installation time without a DE. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
