debian wifi failure

[Jude DaShiell]

Thanks much Sam,

There were some things missing in /etc/network/interfaces and now I have 
a talkingarch instance running I'll get the debian-gnome netinst disk 
and try this using debian-gnome.  It'll be hard on the 1GB of ram 
available but only temporarily.  I want to see what actually gets 
produced on this end when everything works.

On Mon, 11 Jul 2016, Sam Hartman wrote:

> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 13:31:45
> From: Sam Hartman <hartmans at mit.edu>
> To: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com>
> Cc: blinux-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: debian wifi failure
> 
>>>>>> "Jude" == Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com> writes:
>
>    Jude> The debian web page on how to use wifi is useless.  Has anyone
>    Jude> here got experience setting up a workable version of
>    Jude> /etc/network/interfaces?  I can probably put mine up on this
>    Jude> list if it will help.
>
> This is a case where the GUI really is worth using. Even if I didn't
> plan to use gnome for anything else, I might well use orca and gnome and
> the Networkmanager ui to configure wireless.
> It's not that I can't do it from the command line, it's that it's a bit
> fiddly and the GUIs are nice and simple.
>
> Sure, although I wouldn't recommend using /etc/network/interfaces to set
> up wifi.
> It does work after a fassion, but you're going to have better luck with
> NetworkManager or  wpa_supplicant directly.
>
> For NetworkManager, a config file in
> /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections might look like
>
> [ipv6]
> method=auto
> ip6-privacy=2
>
> [connection]
> id=eduroam
> uuid=6012b4d8-3422-410c-aa3b-67864a6b1fc4
> type=802-11-wireless
> timestamp=1381817750
>
> [802-11-wireless-security]
> key-mgmt=wpa-eap
>
> [802-11-wireless]
> ssid=eduroam
> mode=infrastructure
> mac-address=84:3A:4B:71:DE:20
> security=802-11-wireless-security
>
> [802-1x]
> eap=ttls;
> identity=REDACTED
> anonymous-identity=@REDACTED
> phase2-auth=mschapv2
> password-flags=1
>
> [ipv4]
> method=auto
>
>
> I'm not sure you actually need the uuid; I suspect not.
> /etc/network/interfaces might look like
> allow-hotplug wlan0
> iface wlan0 inet manual
> wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
> iface default inet dhcp
>
> And then wpa_supplicant.conf might look like
> ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
> update_config=1
>
> network={
>        ssid="Sam 2.462ghz"
>        key_mgmt=NONE
> }
>
> network={
>        ssid="hartmans24"
>        psk="REDACTED"
>        key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
> }
>
>

--