Your message dated Sat, 14 Jul 2012 11:26:53 -0600 with message-id <20120714172653.gb5...@mykerinos.kheops.frmug.org> and subject line Bug fixed for ages..:-) has caused the Debian Bug report #284799, regarding debian-installer: essid cannot be chosen to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: debian-installer Severity: normal There are multiple wireless spots around my house. Debian defaults to an unsecured network(see later how I discovered this), but that network needs a web-based login (only available to paying customers), so it doesn't actually work. My own wireless router works, and I have the key for it, but the installer never actually asks for the essid, so I don't have a chance to select it. What is worse, is that being a sort-of-expert, I tried to get around this using a console+iwconfig combo, but iwconfig was not available. So, I had to do a very minimial install, then boot into bash, then set the correct essid&key using iwconfig and then do "apt-get ...". It worked in the end, but under "/etc/network/interfaces" debian of course put the essid of the unsecured network (just as I suspected). This behaviour is not correct, as I believe: 1) Wireless is getting very widespread 2) So most normal people will try to install debian through wifi 3) And most people will live next to other people, who also have wifi 4) So it is essential to be able to select the correct essid -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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