Re: WiFi after initial install

From	Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: WiFi after initial install
Date	2016-12-06 00:10 +0100
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On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 12:28:24PM -0800, Seeker wrote:
> On 12/5/2016 12:00 PM, Seeker wrote:
> >
> 

Thanks all for the replies. Looking at the options suggested, it looks 
like I have the following options:

1) systemd-networkd, it didn't provoke the vitriol I was half-expecting.

2) ifupdown -- this rings bells somewhere in the vaults of my memory, 
but I will need to do a bit of googling to remember / learn how to set 
it up. Isn't it a sysvinit thing though? Has it evolved comfortably into 
the new world of systemd? (to be clear I don't have a strong position on 
systemd vs sysvinit, but since Jessie the Debian default has migrated to 
systemd and in the absence of a strong opinion I have elected to go 
along with it)

3) NetworkManager -- not to start a flame war, but I've seen people on 
this list essentially equate NetworkManager to the sperm of the devil, 
so I was surprised a couple of people suggested it. I have no opinion 
myself. I was labouring under the perhaps incorrect belief that 
NetworkManager was a GNOME thing. I use GNOME on my Jessie box (and for 
all I know it could be using NetworkManager, albeit it is wired not 
wireless) but the machine I am dealing with here is running KDE.

Based on these I'll probably go with systemd-networkd as I have used it 
before in recent memory, albeit outside Debian. But I'll read up on the 
other two as well. Thanks all!

Mark

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WiFi after initial install Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-12-05 16:40 +0100
  Re: WiFi after initial install Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2016-12-05 18:30 +0100
    Re: WiFi after initial install Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-12-05 18:50 +0100
  Re: WiFi after initial install Seeker <seeker5528@comcast.net> - 2016-12-05 21:10 +0100
    Re: WiFi after initial install Seeker <seeker5528@comcast.net> - 2016-12-05 21:40 +0100
      Re: WiFi after initial install Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-12-06 00:10 +0100
        Re: WiFi after initial install Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-12-06 20:30 +0100
          Re: WiFi after initial install Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2016-12-06 21:10 +0100
            Re: WiFi after initial install Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-12-06 23:30 +0100
              Re: WiFi after initial install Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-12-07 15:10 +0100
    Re: WiFi after initial install Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2016-12-06 02:40 +0100
  Re: WiFi after initial install Michael Biebl <email@michaelbiebl.de> - 2016-12-05 22:40 +0100

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