clone 596446 -1 reassign -1 firmware-ipw2x00 retitle -1 Licence text overlaps accept/decline buttons thanks Quoting Torsten Jerzembeck (toje@datentrampelpfad.de): > Comments/Problems: Thanks for your report. We'll try to go through reported issues below: > > Most problems I encountered are probably minor glitches that can easily > be corrected, but they probably are quite frustrating for the novice > user. > > 1.) Network configuration seems to hang if non-free firmware is missing > > I hadn't realized that the ipw2915abg WLAN card in the R52 needs a > non-free firmware package and thus hadn't provided this on the install > medium. This caused the installer to seemingly "hang" when configuring > the network. It turned out that the installer tried to access a floppy > drive that is not present on my system although the controller is. Before reassigning this, I'd like you to test the daily builds of Debian Installer, from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ Please choose the netboot image, not another one....several firmware loading issues have been fixed in the recent version of the initrd packages....and the image you tested has quite older versions (yes, even if it's called a daily build too). > 2.) License dialogs' text overlaps the buttons at the bottom > > The firmware package for the ipw2x00 chipsets presents a license dialog > during the installation and prompts to accept or decline the license. > However, the text of the license is too long and overlaps the buttons > at the bottom of the dialog. This makes it impossible to accept the > license as you can't see which button will be selected. I ended up > continuing the installation via the wired network interface present. > > (This problem popped up again during the package installation stage.) Reassigned to the package. It might be a cdebconf issue, though. > 3.) Seemingly no WPA encryption for WLAN interfaces > > Before abandoning the installation via the WLAN interface, I noticed > that there is seemingly no method to configure the WPA encryption > of a WLAN interface, probably because wpa-supplicant is missing at > this stage. This makes a network based installation impossible for > users that have a WPA protected WLAN (increasingly common, at least > here in Germany) and no other means of getting connectivity. Very longstanding wishlist for netcfg: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=327309 and http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=550744 This is very typical of squeeze D-I development: things have been mostly done and....nobody pushed them enough so they're lying around and it's probably even too late now for squeeze..:-(
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