Bug#288522: debian-installer: WLAN config settings become lost (perhaps misplaced) upon first boot
Package: debian-installer
Severity: important
i'm using the i386 debian-installer RC2
(http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/rc2/sarge-i386-netinst.iso) on a dell inspiron 8200 laptop with a dell truemobile 1150
wlan card on a TI PCI-1410 cardbus. i use a non-standard SSID and a
secure WEP key on my wireless network. during the debian-installer
process, i plug in the proper parameters for my wlan, and the
installer obtains an ip right away and is able to download an
install the necessary packages.
on the first boot into the new debian system, an ip address is not
obtained during "configuring network interfaces...." the installer
fails to connect to the net to continue the installation process at
this point. i decided to login to the shell to see what exactly is
going on.
if i do "iwconfig," i see that eth1 has "no wireless extensions" and
that instead eth2 appears to have settings relating to a wireless
interface, but the SSID and WEP key are not configured (eth0 is my
wired lan connection which also says "no wireless extensions").
now, if i do "ifconfig," i get lo which appears to do it's thing
correctly (i can ping localhost) and only get an eth1 which says
"UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST" as if it's attempting to contact the
dhcp server, but is just unable to. there is no eth2 when i do
"ifconfig." if i look in "/etc/network/interfaces," the eth1 section
does have the SSID and WEP key settings that i had set up earlier at the
beginning of the install. as an aside, my secure WEP key is stored
as plain-text in this file (potentially part of the problem and maybe
a security issue?).
ok, so basically, from the above, it appears that the wlan settings
configured during the initial debian-installer process some how get
jumbled improperly between an eth1 and eth2 interface upon the first
boot. it should be expected that the settings be applied to only the
eth1 interface.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-1-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
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