[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#609072: Bug#609072: Trials with Squeeze RC2: It does look like a Network Manager Package Issue

[Paul Bryan Roberts]

Michael,

Thank you for your prompt and considered reply.

If you wish to mark this bug report as specious and close it then please 
do so.
It was, after all, only an installation report.

I understand now, when I install Debian using the wireless interface, 
why the
Network Manager cannot see any wireless access points and how to make my
own "local modifications" so that it does.  So I am happy.

I would like to apologise for my poor comprehension of English.  You wrote:

No, the script works as expected. It comments out entries which only use dhcp
and have no further options.

which I understand and describes the empirically observable behaviour of 
the script
well.  The script itself says:

# if there is no iface line for that interface, we would still get a line
# count of 1 ... so use word_count 0 below to exclude ifaces that have no
# configuration at all.

which I did not understand as meaning the same thing at all.

I would also like to apologise for my poor use of English.  You wrote:

Thanks for the offer, but no. First try to understand why the script behaves the
way it does and why you can't simply comment out everything.

I am sorry that you inferred my script simply comments out everything.  
That would
not work.  I tried to say the script only changes the name of the 
interface so the stanza
appears to refer to another, inexistant,  interface.  The intention was 
to have the stanza
ignored, which seemed to be the effect.

Thank you for your encouragement to look into this further.  I came 
across an excellent
description on the Debian wiki of all places.  I now have options:  the 
Network Manager
is not the only way of connecting to a WPA encrypted wireless network.

I am very sorry to have wasted your time with something that should have 
been dealt
with on a user forum.

Paul