On 07.12.2010 23:21, Joey Hess wrote:
Package: network-manager
Version: 0.8.1-6
Severity: serious
Tags: d-i
On upgrading to this version network manager stopped managing
my wireless interface and my laptop's network was taken down.
Upgrading from which version?
/etc/network/interfaces
On 07.12.2010 23:44, Michael Biebl wrote:
Could you please clarify what exactly happened? Was this only temporary
immediately after the upgrade? Is the problem reproducible after a upgrade?
Reproducible after a reboot, I meant.
One approach would be for for
Michael Biebl wrote:
Upgrading from which version?
0.8.1-4
I also don't understand why you say that the network is taken down.
Because it was taken down, when the postinst stopped network-manager,
and did not come back up when the postinst started network-manager
(because network-manager had
Michael Biebl wrote:
If you install a new system using d-i and a /e/n/i configuration like your's
is
created, the interface will be managed by ifupdown and not network-manager.
ifup does not bring up interfaces marked as allow-hotplug unless it
gets some kind of hotplug event. That does not
Michael Biebl wrote:
Could you please clarify what exactly happened? Was this only temporary
immediately after the upgrade? Is the problem reproducible after a upgrade?
Reproducible after a reboot, I meant.
Yes.
Doing a fully automated conversion would probably not be that easy and I'm
On 08.12.2010 00:45, Joey Hess wrote:
Doing a fully automated conversion would probably not be that easy and I'm
not
convinced it would be a good idea anyways.
And we can't simply comment out entries like the above without risking to
lose
network connection.
Unfortunatly I don't see
Michael Biebl wrote:
First, installing over wireless is certainly not the norm
Amazon is currently selling $350 laptops on which Debian can be installed
over wireless (ath9k) without even needing non-free firmware.
open wireless networks are not that common either.
That is highly
On 08.12.2010 01:32, Joey Hess wrote:
But even if that is the case, this still stands:
a. Would you really want laptops' wireless interfaces to be
managed by ifupdown on a system with network-manager, by default?
No, but as I already mentioned imho this can only be handled half way sane
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