Re: stretch orca and wifi connection setup

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>]

It's worse than that since debian documentation for command line 
wireless set up leaves lots of information all over the place and you 
have to go through several documents and even then you can't be sure you 
did anything right.  There's iwconfig and iwlist to learn.  Then it 
splits into whether you're doing single wireless connection or roaming 
wireless connection and all of that really ought to be in separated 
documents.  If I ever get the command line network configuration working 
for a single wireless connection I'll do a step-wise write up on what I 
did to get all of this working.  I hope it will help others once it goes 
up on the internet.

On Mon, 12 Dec 2016, Nick Gawronski wrote:

> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 00:26:20
> From: Nick Gawronski <nick@nickgawronski.com>
> To: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>, debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: stretch orca and wifi connection setup
>
> Hi, Why not have options in the installer at low priority about putting the 
> information into the interfaces file and setting up the wireless connections 
> for command line users as this is why lots of people who I know don't use 
> Debian with the command line as it would make sence if wireless was working 
> during the installation it should be working after the installation and if 
> they only have one computer and they are installing only Debian it is kind of 
> tricky to research on line when internet is not working and no document is on 
> the system to help out the new user?  Nick Gawronski
>
>
> On 12/12/2016 9:18 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > Yes, that's why that happened.  Command line users now need to roll their 
> > own /etc/network/interfaces and /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf 
> > files. On Mon, 12 Dec 2016, Nick Gawronski wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 13:17:58
> > > From: Nick Gawronski <nick@nickgawronski.com>
> > > To: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>, 
> > > debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org
> > > Subject: Re: stretch orca and wifi connection setup
> > >
> > > Hi, Is this also the reason when I used the week build of November 28th, 
> > > 2016 and did not install any desktop no wireless network was setup?  I 
> > > think there should be an option to ask the user about this issue as I 
> > > myself would be ok for this to be done on my personal laptop?  Nick 
> > > Gawronski
> > >
> > >
> > > On 12/11/2016 4:31 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > FTR, the issue about the debian installer not configuring the wifi on
> > > > the installed system is
> > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=694068
> > > > the main issue is that when network-manager is not getting installed,
> > > > one would have to write the wifi password in the world-readable
> > > > /etc/network/interfaces , which is not something one usually wants to
> > > > do, and from there it's currently a statu quo.
> > > >
> > > > Samuel

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