On Thu 29 Oct 2015 at 16:07:01 +0000, OECT T wrote: > 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.
The decision to use WICD was, of course, made after the first boot, not by the installer. > At my office, networking is being handled through Network manager. That came about because you installed a DE and the DE brought Network Manager with it. (See below). > I'd like to know which criteria is used by the installer on order to > decide which way to go to manage networking. The choice made by the installer in deciding how the network is managed depends entirely on the how you choose to set up the network at the beginning of the installation and on what network management tools are on the system at the end of the installation. That is, whether a wired or wireless interface is selected and whether Network Manager is available. Details are in the templates file and the script 55netcfg-copy-config from the netcfg udeb package. >From templates: Specifies what kind of network connection management tool should be configured post-installation if multiple are available. Automatic selection is used in this order when not specified: network-manager if available (on Linux only), ethernet configuration through ifupdown on wired installation and loopback configuration through ifupdown on wireless installations. > Is it possible to tell the installer to use "interfaces" file > (ifupdown)? Pre-seed with netcfg/target_network_config=ifupdown
