On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 04:07:01PM +0000, OECT T wrote: > Hello everyone: > > > I recently installed Debian Jessie in two PC's. > > At home with a wireless card and at my office on a wired network. > > At home, network seems to be working with WICD (wireless). I understand that > WICD can manage wired networking as well, according to documentation. > > At my office, networking is being handled through Network manager. > > I'd like to know which criteria is used by the installer on order to decide > which way to go to manage networking. > > Is it possible to tell the installer to use "interfaces" file (ifupdown)? > > I'll appreciate any hints about this.
The installer will install NetworkManager under most circumstances. You can change over to using /etc/network/interfaces by writing your configuration there, removing NetworkManager, and rebooting. In theory NetworkManager ignores any interfaces defined in /etc/network/interfaces. In practice, it is a bad idea to have NetworkManager installed if you never use it. wicd does a much better job at integrating with /etc/network/interfaces, but you probably only want it on a laptop, or similar machine which moves between wireless networks frequently. -dsr-
