On Friday 22 June 2018 23:12:58 Nick Koretsky wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 18:30:24 +0200
>
> Stefan Krusche <linux@...> wrote:
> > Am Freitag 22 Juni 2018 schrieb William Morder:
> > > So here's the problem: I got my network working reasonably well, except
> > > for one glitch, that it automatically connects at startup. I've tried
> > > wicd and tdenetworkmanager, as well as the knetworkmanager. Also I've
> > > dabbled with pretty much every other network management tool, and
> > > nothing changes. I set the manager so that it does not connect
> > > automatically (which worked fine for me in Debian Jessie), but now it
> > > keeps resetting the configuration, and automatically connects on
> > > startup.
> > >
> > > After I am up and running, I am able to connect and disconnect with few
> > > problems, but this is really annoying.
> > >
> > > Is it better to change the configuration file in one of these
> > > locations? /etc/network/interfaces
> > > /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf
> >
> > Hello Bill,
> >
> > in case I understood correctly and you don't want to connect to the
> > internet at boot time, have you tried this in "/etc/default/networking"?:
> >
> > # Set to 'no' to skip interfaces configuration on boot
> > #CONFIGURE_INTERFACES=yes
>
> This is bad idea. It would cause ALL interfaces not to come up at boot,
> including lo, which can cause some deamons not to start and other to behave
> weirdly.
>
> Removing auto clause from wlan0 (or whatever you wifi interface name is)
> in /etc/network/interfaces should be enough for stopping auto connect at
> startup if you are not also autostarting some gui misconfiguration program.

Yes, I was intending to try those places I mentioned above. This other 
suggestion was a last resort, and I was sort of thinking the same thing. I 
only want wlan0 not to connect until I do so manually. 

Bill