Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release (WPA support)
Christian PERRIER wrote:
>Still, whatever "our priorities" are, adding such new feature now is
>certainly not the most welcomed idea. Where were those people who so
>desperately need that feature when it was *really* time to add it, ie
>back in 2009 or early 2010, when new developments to D-I were highly
>welcomed.
This issue isn't exactly new, nor are attempts (and commitments) to fix
it. Reasons why previous patches didn't make it into Debian is a
different discussion.
Selected msgs, via Google "WPA site:lists.debian.org/debian-boot"
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Early patches, based on still earlier bug reports:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2008/05/msg00191.html
"We'll support it [in squeeze] and we have mostly ready patches for
netcfg to be pushed." From: Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2009/03/msg00538.html
Bug#550744: Add WPA support to netcfg [updated patch]
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2009/12/msg00364.html
Regression for squeeze:
"It would be nice if this could make it into Squeeze, as one of the
distinctive features of the custom installer we (the Debian Eee PC team)
made for Lenny was that you could install over WPA."
From: Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca>
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2010/06/msg00295.html
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