Bug#502955: debian-installer: essid cannot be chosen
Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
There are multiple wireless spots around my house. Debian defaults to an
unsecured network(see later how I discovered this), but that network needs a web-based login (only
available to paying customers), so it doesn't actually work. My own
wireless router works, and I have the key for it, but the installer
never actually asks for the essid, so I don't have a chance to select
it.
What is worse, is that being a sort-of-expert, I tried to get around
this using a console+iwconfig combo, but iwconfig was not available. So,
I had to do a very minimial install, then boot into bash, then set the
correct essid&key using iwconfig and then do "apt-get ...". It worked in
the end, but under "/etc/network/interfaces" debian of course put the
essid of the unsecured network (just as I suspected).
This behaviour is not correct, as I believe:
1) Wireless is getting very widespread
2) So most normal people will try to install debian through wifi
3) And most people will live next to other people, who also have wifi
4) So it is essential to be able to select the correct essid
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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