Re: Network installer lacks Netgear wifi support

2015-05-10 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hello Stefan, Thanks for the write-up, I only had a vague idea of what usb-modeswitch was, and it helped getting a clear view. Stefan Lippers-Hollmann s@gmx.de (2015-05-10): If you would add Netgear wireless support to 8.0, 7.x and 6.x, I'm sure many users would appreciate it. I can't

Re: Network installer lacks Netgear wifi support

2015-05-10 Thread Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
Hi On 2015-05-11, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hello Stefan, Thanks for the write-up, I only had a vague idea of what usb-modeswitch was, and it helped getting a clear view. [...] Just to add some further context. Device manufacturers can apply this modeswitching dance (supported by

Re: Network installer lacks Netgear wifi support

2015-05-09 Thread Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
Hi On 2015-05-09, JohnT wrote: I bought a newer 64-bit pc to replace this old 32-bit system and want to install Debian on it. I knew that 6.0.10 didn't seem to have Netgear wireless-through-USB support, so I tried 7.6.0 and 8.0 and found that they didn't recognize the Netgear hardware either.

Network installer lacks Netgear wifi support

2015-05-09 Thread JohnT
I bought a newer 64-bit pc to replace this old 32-bit system and want to install Debian on it. I knew that 6.0.10 didn't seem to have Netgear wireless-through-USB support, so I tried 7.6.0 and 8.0 and found that they didn't recognize the Netgear hardware either. The 8.0 installer's hardware

Re: Network installer lacks Netgear wifi support

2015-05-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2015-05-09 at 16:36 -0500, JohnT wrote: I bought a newer 64-bit pc to replace this old 32-bit system and want to install Debian on it. I knew that 6.0.10 didn't seem to have Netgear wireless-through-USB support, so I tried 7.6.0 and 8.0 and found that they didn't recognize the Netgear