It's worse than that since debian documentation for command line
wireless set up leaves lots of information all over the place and you
have to go through several documents and even then you can't be sure you
did anything right. There's iwconfig and iwlist to learn. Then it
splits into whether you're doing single wireless connection or roaming
wireless connection and all of that really ought to be in separated
documents. If I ever get the command line network configuration working
for a single wireless connection I'll do a step-wise write up on what I
did to get all of this working. I hope it will help others once it goes
up on the internet.
On Mon, 12 Dec 2016, Nick Gawronski wrote:
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 00:26:20
From: Nick Gawronski <[email protected]>
To: Jude DaShiell <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: stretch orca and wifi connection setup
Hi, Why not have options in the installer at low priority about putting the
information into the interfaces file and setting up the wireless connections
for command line users as this is why lots of people who I know don't use
Debian with the command line as it would make sence if wireless was working
during the installation it should be working after the installation and if
they only have one computer and they are installing only Debian it is kind of
tricky to research on line when internet is not working and no document is on
the system to help out the new user? Nick Gawronski
On 12/12/2016 9:18 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
Yes, that's why that happened. Command line users now need to roll their
own /etc/network/interfaces and /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
files. On Mon, 12 Dec 2016, Nick Gawronski wrote:
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 13:17:58
From: Nick Gawronski <[email protected]>
To: Jude DaShiell <[email protected]>,
[email protected]
Subject: Re: stretch orca and wifi connection setup
Hi, Is this also the reason when I used the week build of November 28th,
2016 and did not install any desktop no wireless network was setup? I
think there should be an option to ask the user about this issue as I
myself would be ok for this to be done on my personal laptop? Nick
Gawronski
On 12/11/2016 4:31 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
Hello,
FTR, the issue about the debian installer not configuring the wifi on
the installed system is
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=694068
the main issue is that when network-manager is not getting installed,
one would have to write the wifi password in the world-readable
/etc/network/interfaces , which is not something one usually wants to
do, and from there it's currently a statu quo.
Samuel
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