Greetings,
On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 10:37 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2014-02-06 13:36, Richard Nelson wrote: > >> Greetings, >> >> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 6:31 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> In late December I installed a dual-boot system of >>> Debian >>> Testing and Windows 7. Since the Debian installer CD/DVD did not >>> have >>> wifi, I had to take the machine over to where I could access a >>> cable >>> connection. I had previously ascertained the wifi card and made >>> sure to >>> install the appropriate wifi driver (iwlwifi) on the new system. >>> The new system booted successfully and was able to >>> access wifi. >>> Wifi performance was irregular. Installing >>> "firmware-linux-nonfree" >>> fixed that problem. >>> About a week or two later, Windows died, and died >>> messily. I >>> had to wipe everything, including the Debian partitions and >>> reinstall. >>> I was in a situation where I could only install over >>> wifi, so I >>> could not install Debian. I had to use a Mint 16 DVD I had >>> on-hand, as >>> it was able to use wifi on boot, and was then able to install over >>> wifi. >>> So I've been running Mint and Windows. The system >>> works all >>> right, but I now want to replace Mint with Debian. >>> This time, I'd like to try Stable instead of Testing. >>> Also, I >>> would like to perform the install over wifi. >>> I never found a live CD that also had a Debian >>> installer on it. >>> Then I heard about the Debian Live project. >>> After some days of reading the guide & man pages, >>> combined with >>> much trial & error, I was able to produce a custom Debian Stable >>> live CD >>> image. >>> I put this on a USB stuck and it booted fine. Wow. >>> I had, all >>> by myself, made a live CD. That was very cool. I'd never done >>> anything >>> like that before. I felt most triumphant. >>> There was only one small problem. Despite the fact >>> that I had >>> packages for drivers & firmware on the live CD, wifi was not >>> visible. >>> The usual list of acess points was not shown. It was as if the >>> machine >>> had no wifi card at all. There was not even a wifi device listed >>> on a >>> run of ifconfig. Something is not right. >>> I used this as my ~/my_live_cd/auto/config file: >>> >>> #!/bin/sh >>> >>> lb config noauto >>> --architectures amd64 >>> --linux-flavours amd64 >>> --distribution wheezy >>> --archive-areas "main contrib non-free" >>> --binary-images iso-hybrid >>> --debian-installer netinst --debian-installer-gui true >>> --mode debian >>> "${@}" >>> >>> I used four files in >>> ~/my_live_cd_1/config/package-lists >>> directory. >>> >>> * my_list.list (all one one line, but wrapped for email): >>> iceweasel lvm2 cryptsetup firmware-iwlwifi firmware-linux-nonfree >>> wireless-tools task-laptop screen worker gparted leafpad nano feh >>> wifi-radar initramfs-tools irssi scrot alsa sox mhwaveedit >>> xserver-xorg-video-intel >>> >>> * put_installer_on_desktoplist.chroot: >>> debian-installer-launcher >>> >>> * standard.list.chroot: >>> ! Packages Priority standard >>> >>> * desktop.list >>> task-lxde-desktop >>> >>> No other files were created or modified manually: a "lb >>> clean" >>> "lb config" "lb build" cycle was use for all other changes. >>> So... is there something inherent in live-cds that >>> makes wifi >>> impossible, regardless of what packages are included? >>> Is there something I am overlooking? >>> Thank you in advance. >>> >> >> Could you share: >> >> 1. Specific wifi card? >> >> 2. The binary.packages file from your build? >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> >> -- >>> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] >>> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >>> [email protected] >>> Archive: >>> http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] [1] >>> >> >> >> >> Links: >> ------ >> [1] http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] >> > > Thank you for the reply. > > Welcome and we will examine more information below. Also I am moving back to the mailing list since this information may assist other users. > > 1. Specific wifi card? > > 0d:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 (rev 73) > Subsystem: Intel Corporation Wireless-N 7260 > Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi > > 2. The binary.packages file from your build? > > <snip> > linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 3.2.51-1 > linux-image-amd64 3.2+46 > > </snip> > > Hope that was not too big for a post in a mailing list, > as it was around 30k. > > I removed what I did not need and thank you for the complete information. Now I could be wrong but I have ran in to a recent issue that is similar. What I had to do was to move to a more recent kernel which would support my wifi card. In Debian testing the version of the linux kernel according to http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux.html would be 3.12.9-1 . According to <http://packages.debian.org/source/testing/linux> http://www.intel.com/support/wireless/wlan/sb/CS-034398.htm for your wifi card you need 3.13+ iwlwifi-3160-ucode-22.15.8.0.tgz<http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=iwlwifi-7260-ucode-22.15.8.0.tgz> 3.10+ iwlwifi-3160-ucode-22.1.7.0.tgz<http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=iwlwifi-3160-ucode-22.1.7.0.tgz> So my best guess (since I am not fully familiar with Ubuntu) is that the version of Ubuntu had a later kernel and if you look at the kernel above you are using it is to old to support your card. So you could try building with --distribution jessie And that I believe would give you a more recent kernel and a better chance of getting all up and working. Hope this information assists.
