Wireless on custom live CD not working

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 09 April 2016 06:40:56 Karl Auer wrote:

> On Sat, 2016-04-09 at 03:08 -0700, Tony Baechler wrote:
> > I'm changing the subject for clarity.
>
> By replying to a message and changing the subject you "hijack" the
> thread. In threaded email readers, your messages (and replies to them)
> will all appear as part of the original thread, but they are not.
> Thread drift is one thing, but hijacking is rude.
>
> If you feel the need to change the subject, you should start a new
> thread, not reply to an existing one.
>
> > Are there better alternatives to NM which will
> > automatically configure the network with DHCP
> > and detect wireless?
>
> You can do pretty much all networking via /etc/network/interfaces.
> It's not as dynamic as NM, but it's very powerful. The stanza you want
> looks something like this:
>
>    auto wlan0
>    iface wlan0 inet dhcp
>       wireless-mode managed
>       wireless-essid Your-SSID
>       wireless-key Your-PSK
>
> ... and if you want a static address, mask etc you can use the same
> configuration items as for ethernet, just use "inet static" instead of
> "inet dhcp".
>
> It will work alongside NM, too - NM will ignore any interface
> mentioned in/etc/network/interfaces. After you make changes, just
> restart NM. No need to reboot usually.

Oh?  That must be more recent. Back when dependencies wouldn't let you 
remove N-M, I found I had to, as root, chattr -i on both interfaces and 
resolv.conf else it would overwrite in 5 miniutes what I had just 
configured as above and made it work flawlessly.  Thats why I now 
recommend uninstalling it since we now can remove it now without 
eviscerating the working system.  Amazingly when the older version found 
it couldn't edit those files, it had to good graces to STFU as opposed 
tp spamming the logs eery 2 or 3 minutes like the first version a decade 
back did, that was annoying in the extreme.  So we've made progress, and 
maybe it might be usable in another 10 years.

> The above is off the top of my head; I'm sure Uncle Google can provide
> more accurate/comprehensive examples.
>
> I've had very few problems with NM. I do generally disable dnsmasq for
> better control of name resolution. I tried wicd for a while, but it
> didn't support IPv6, so I had to drop it. IMHO NM is a pretty good
> program.

You have ipv6? I don't believe there is ipv6 service within 100 miles of 
me yet, so you are making me slightly jealous. :)

> Regards, K.
>
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