Wireless in 9.10

Reinhold Rumberger rrumberger at web.de
Sun Dec 6 19:00:19 UTC 2009


On Sunday 06 December 2009, Nigel Ridley wrote:
> That looks straight forward. Do I just 'sudo apt-get remove
>  KnetworkManager',

The packages are "network-manager" and
"plasma-widget-networkmanagement". Whether you remove them or not is 
up to you. NM will ignore any interface configured in 
/etc/network/interfaces. You may wish to keep NM in case you ever 
need it - and I would certainly keep it until I was sure the 
/etc/network/interfaces setup worked.

>  set up my /etc/network/interfaces and 'sudo
>  /etc/init.d/networking restart' ?

Yes, pretty much. Alternatively you can manually "sudo ifdown wlan0" 
and "sudo ifup wlan0".

  --Reinhold




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