Package: debian-installer Severity: important
i'm using the i386 debian-installer RC2 (http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/rc2/sarge-i386-netinst.iso) on a dell inspiron 8200 laptop with a dell truemobile 1150 wlan card on a TI PCI-1410 cardbus. i use a non-standard SSID and a secure WEP key on my wireless network. during the debian-installer process, i plug in the proper parameters for my wlan, and the installer obtains an ip right away and is able to download an install the necessary packages. on the first boot into the new debian system, an ip address is not obtained during "configuring network interfaces...." the installer fails to connect to the net to continue the installation process at this point. i decided to login to the shell to see what exactly is going on. if i do "iwconfig," i see that eth1 has "no wireless extensions" and that instead eth2 appears to have settings relating to a wireless interface, but the SSID and WEP key are not configured (eth0 is my wired lan connection which also says "no wireless extensions"). now, if i do "ifconfig," i get lo which appears to do it's thing correctly (i can ping localhost) and only get an eth1 which says "UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST" as if it's attempting to contact the dhcp server, but is just unable to. there is no eth2 when i do "ifconfig." if i look in "/etc/network/interfaces," the eth1 section does have the SSID and WEP key settings that i had set up earlier at the beginning of the install. as an aside, my secure WEP key is stored as plain-text in this file (potentially part of the problem and maybe a security issue?). ok, so basically, from the above, it appears that the wlan settings configured during the initial debian-installer process some how get jumbled improperly between an eth1 and eth2 interface upon the first boot. it should be expected that the settings be applied to only the eth1 interface. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-1-k7 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
