Frustrating install experience and recommendations for improvement, part 2

POST TOO LONG, CONTINUE FROM PART 1...

So now I know that NIC is detected and works during OMV install, but I don't know if NIC works after OMV is installed. I don't know how to confirm this, but my both NICs (wifi and wired) are listed with 'lspci'.

I assume that NIC works, but it doesn't connect to the Internet, so I look around how to connect to wifi from CLI.

PROBLEM: Way too many pages with too many different instructions...
SOLUTION: I come across this, I follow option 1:
https://unix.stackexchange.com…hrough-command-line#92810

I look at my OMV /etc/network/interfaces and sure enough, "iface [...] inet dhcp" is there, but

wpa-ssid {ssid}wpa-psk {password}

is not there!!!

PROBLEM: I connect to wifi during install, but then it doesn't save when installed?
SOLUTION: WTF, OMV?

I edit /etc/network/interfaces, add my ssid and password below "iface ... inet dhcp"

PROBLEM: Should my wifi password really be in plain text in /etc/network/interfaces
SOLUTION: I don't know...

Reboot, I get IP on login screen, I login, Internet works, web GUI works.

PROBLEM: AITA for wanting to use OMV over wifi?
SOLUTION: You tell me! I got it to work, but I don't think I should have went through all of this. Where did I go wrong? What OMV info did I miss? What info should OMV provide, but didn't?

TomK

I installed on ThinkPad x220, I used wifi during install, too. Everything probably would have been fine if I used wired Ethernet.

I may agree that running NAS over wifi is not a good idea, but that doesn't mean that it is not allowed by OMV, and it doesn't mean there won't be users who really want to do it (like me!).

So my question is this: if I successfully connected to wifi during the install, shouldn't I expect that the same wifi will be connected to after the install? Is this too much too ask? I think this is the intended behavior for any consumer OS...

If the intended behavior is that wifi that was used during the install doesn't connect to after install, then I think there should be a clear message to that effect, e.g. "You are installing over WiFi, the WiFi connection will not be saved after installation. If you want to continue using WiFi on OMV, you'll have to configure it manually from the CLI".

If the intended behavior is that wifi that was used during the install connects to the same signal after the install, then that should be fixed, somehow.

IMHO.

Zitat von ryecoaaron

You are the first I have seen ask for this in 7+ years.

Wow, then I'm kind of proud of myself!

Background on why I'm installing over wifi: My router is in a tool shed outside of my home, I could go there, connect with wire, install, configure wifi, and then go back home, but now it is cold during the day, and I don't have fingerless gloves!

Zitat von ryecoaaron

It would be much easier for you to purchase a wireless to ethernet bridge (lots of cheap routers can do this for $20) or a really long cable.

hm... I don't know what that is... looking it up... yes, that would work, thank you!