Bug#327299: installation report

[Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>]

severity 327299 wishlist
clone 327299 -1
retitle -1 Please support wpasupplicant in netcfg
retitle 327299 Please include ndiswrapper in D-I
thanks

> Comments/Problems:
> The network installation cd lacked ndiswrapper and wpasupplicant.  I
> built ndiswrapper using the same kernel the install cd used on my 1st
> debian install then copied it and its related files to get wireless
> working.  I also copied wpasupplicant so I could use the wireless
> network.  Then I was able to use dhclinet to get an ip address and
> dselect to install the rest of the system.

I'm not sure that the D-I team really can handle this which would turn
to "Please include ndiswrapper and wpasupplicant in D-I".

While wpasupplicant could be OK (I guess we would need a udeb from the
wpasupplicant package....and something in netcfg to configure this),
ndiswrapper would be more complicated as, for obvious reasons, we
cannot provide the NDIS drivers so supporting ndiswrapper in the
installer would require setting up a way to prompt the user for a disk
(floppy, USB thing, CD) including these NDIS drivers (as far as I
understand ndiswrapper way to work).

Both are certainly complicated stuff, I'm afraid. So unless in the D-I
team wants to pick them up....or someone else wants to implement
this, they're like to remain wishlist stuff for a long time...

But, let's record this anyway....

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