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Re: network setup

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Brian and others, thanks much I got network up and working last night. 
One thing I did was to turn the wpa-psk field contents into hex and 
store it that way in /etc/network/interfaces since 
/etc/network/interfaces has to be world-readable.

On Tue, 13 Dec 2016, Brian wrote:

> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 07:55:26
> From: Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: network setup
> Resent-Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:55:43 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> 
> If all you want is a single wireless connection which is activated when
> the machine boots you do not need a wpa_supplicant.conf. Everything can
> be done in /etc/network/interfaces. It is the simplest, most hassle-free
> and most straightforward way to proceed.
>
> First check that network-manager is not managing the interface you are
> going to define in /e/n/i. /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf needs
> to have
>
> [main]
> plugins=ifupdown,keyfile
>
> [ifupdown]
> managed=false
>
> Also check the wireless interface name with 'ifconfig -a'. Previously
> you said it was wlx00c0ca364bd2.
>
> Now, into /etc/network/interfaces put
>
> allow-hotplug wlx00c0ca364bd2
> iface wlx00c0ca364bd2 inet dhcp
> 	wpa-ssid whatever
> 	wpa-psk  whatever
>
> This is all you require in the file.
>
> Reboot or use 'ifup -v wlx00c0ca364bd2'.
>
>
> On Tue 13 Dec 2016 at 06:10:16 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>
>> I'm trying for a single wireless connection.
>> I wrote some stuff in /etc/network/interfaces and wrote some things in
>> /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf and found command line documentation
>> for bringing an internet connection up incomplete. Iwconfig has to be given
>> the interface and told just about everything I put into
>> /etc/network/interfaces but at least iwconfig preserves what I tell it
>> across reboots.  When I had a graphical user interface environment up I used
>> a terminal and ran nmtui with no success too, so I've been around the block.
>
>

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    Re: network setup Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-12-11 20:50 +0100
    Re: network setup Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2016-12-12 01:50 +0100
      Re: network setup Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-12-12 13:50 +0100
        Re: network setup Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2016-12-13 12:20 +0100
          Re: network setup Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-12-13 14:00 +0100
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            Re: network setup Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-12-13 20:50 +0100
              Re: network setup Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> - 2016-12-13 21:00 +0100
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