Shammer's Philosophy

My private adversaria

Organizing Debian Install Procedure without network-manager

Debian

This is a newer version of Organizing Debian Install Procedure - Shammerism

  1. Select only System Tools and Laptop during Install process
  2. After reboot, enable wireless by editing /etc/network/interfaces like below.
  3. /etc/init.d/networking restart
  4. apt-get update
  5. apt-get install terminator
  6. apt-get install gdm3
  7. apt-get install iceweasel
  8. apt-get install icedove
  9. vi /etc/default/keyboard, modify XKBOPTIONS="" to XKBOPTIONS="ctrl:nocaps", this changes capslock to ctrl.
  10. dpkg-reconfigure -phigh console-setup
  11. shutdown -r now

Adding configuration to /etc/network/interfaces is below. The command "wpa_passphrase $ESSID $PASSPHRASE" tells about ESSID and PASSWORD values. If wireless interface would be up, "iwlist scan" command shows the access point information within the area.

iface $ProfileName inet dhcp
  wpa-ssid $ESSID
  wpa-psk $PASSWORD

Sample configuration is in Switch wireless access point by CLI - Shammerism.

After reboot, GUI is enabled and login.

  1. After login, launch terminator
  2. su -
  3. ifup wlan0=$ProfileName
  4. apt-get install uim
  5. apt-get install uim-skk
  6. shutdown -r now

Adding other profiles if there are cases that connecting other network access points.