[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#606268: NetworkManager and wireless interfaces created by d-i (Re: Bug#606268:...)

[Filipus Klutiero]

On 2012-04-04 17:02, Michael Biebl wrote:
> On 04.04.2012 22:48, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> On 04.04.2012 19:50, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
>>> I just reinstalled Debian and for the first time did it via my wireless
>>> network (with WPA encryption), without even requiring non-free firmware.
>>> It was disappointing after that to discover that using wireless during
>>> the install was what caused network-manager not to manage my wireless
>>> card, after the installation :-/
>>>
>>> I read the README and also tried managed=true to workaround, but that
>>> didn't do it for me. NetworkManager would show my wireless card as
>>> "Unavailable"... whatever that means. It reluctantly gave as only reason
>>> for that state that the device was now managed...
>>> d-i added this stanza to /etc/network/interfaces for my wireless card:
>>>
>>>> # The primary network interface
>>>> allow-hotplug wlan0
>>>> iface wlan0 inet dhcp
>>>>      wpa-ssid 1391
>>>>      wpa-psk  openssh5.1p1
>>> Commenting the allow-hotplug line managed to work around. It seems that
>>> wlan0 was up when network-manager started, and this caused it not to
>>> consider wlan0. After bringing wlan0 down and restarting
>>> network-manager, NetworkManager could control wlan0.
>> I thought d-i does *not* create any /e/n/i entries for wireless
>> connections anymore, so NM can properly manage the interface later on.
>>
  d-i surely did here. To be exact, I "just" reinstalled on March 23rd, 
using a March 22nd i386 testing netinst. I didn't touch 
/etc/network/interfaces or play with the network after the install 
except through NetworkManager.