On 13.01.2011 22:22, Matthew Palmer wrote: > [Summary: NetworkManager doesn't properly transition away from > /etc/network/interfaces-configured wireless interfaces to using it's own > internal configuration database, causing them to not come up at all] > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 08:30:40PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: >> Imho, the cleanest solution here would be, if d-i simply wouldn't write out >> any >> configuration (dhcp/wireless) if network-manager is installed (through the >> desktop task). >> >> CCing the d-i team, to know if that would be feasible. > > No, this is not feasible at this stage of the release. The package that > detects and configures the network (netcfg) runs long, *LONG* before any > packages or tasks are chosen. Now, in theory, we could defer writing out > /e/n/interfaces until the end of the install (probably by extending > finish-install), but that would be complicated and prone to bugs, which > means isn't going to happen for squeeze anyway (d-i rc1 was just released; > nothing but showstopper bugs *in* *d-i* are going to get fixed now).
Ok, then I guess we need to tag this bug as squeeze-ignore, unless someone comes up with a better idea. > At any rate, I don't think that not writing out network config is going to > solve your problem. What about when a user of a newly-installed system (ie > post d-i) decides they want the desktop task installed? Or decides to > install NM individually? In both of those cases, interfaces is going to be > populated, and you (presumably) need to deal with that correctly, and it's > no different to the install-time case anyway. Even if we ignored those > people, by not writing out a network config you're giving all desktop users > a system with no network at all at first boot, which is pretty much To be precise, this would only affect desktop installs using wireless/WEP during installation, so not *all*. > guaranteed to result in a large pile of failing d-i installation reports > that we can do nothing about. Afaics the proposed solution to simply comment out the wep configuration from /e/n/i will basically have the same effect. I mean, I could ride the easy path, as wicd does, and simply ignore what's configured in /e/n/i and if people want to have devices not be managed by NM, they have to configure that explicitly in /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf. Setting managed=true needs more work and integration, especially from ifupdown, i.e. if NM is in charge of the device, you don't want ifupdown to bring it up too, and e.g. spawn a second wpa_supplicant instance which then fight against each other. Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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