reassign 607766 netcfg retitle 607766 Fails to configure WEP wireless network without DHCP thanks Quoting Ian Wakeling (ian.wakeling@ntlworld.com): > First, it failed to find any accesspoints. My accesspoint doesn't broadcast, so > I didn't expect it to find that, but my neighbours are all noisy, so it should > have found those and it didn't. No matter, it offered me the option of entering > the essid manually, which was fine and it then went on to ask me for the WEP > key, also good. It said it was trying to configure with DHCP, which I don't > have enabled, so I waited for that to fail and then configured it manually. No > error messages at this point, everything looked fine. Then it failed to > retrieve anything from the mirrors. Looking at the log on console 4, it > claimed it had authorised with the access point, but going to console 2 and > looking at "ip link" said the interface was down and I couldn't get it to come > up. The ethernet configuration looked OK, but the lack of wireless tools meant > I couldn't check the wireless configuration. That seems to be a bug that could be investigated in netcfg: WEP+manual network failing. There may be some timeout quirks somewhere. > Although GRUB identified the two Windows partitions, they didn't appear in the > boot options on initial reboot. Running update-grub later on fixed it. Should be fixed when the last versions of grub-installer migrate to testing, as far as I've followed these stories. > The only other minor gripe was that the task selection interface offers > "Graphical Desktop" and not having done a fresh install for quite a while, I > naïvely selected it, expecting to be offered the choice of which desktop... but > it went ahead and installed Gnome, which I did not want! I have absolutely no > interest in a debate about the relative merits of the various desktops, but if > the installer really can't offer the choice of desktops, the option should at > least be labelled "Gnome" so that it's clear what is being offered and those > who want something else can avoid wasting lots of time and bandwidth. > Otherwise, it all went smoothly and everything worked - well done, thanks! This is a FAQ for D-I. There are tons of reasons for which we don't want to prompt users for the kind of graphical environment they want to use. GNOME being the default environment for Debian, it is logical that "Graphical desktop" brings GNOME in without an extra annoying question. Alternative GUI environment can be chosen through a boot command line option (see installation guide for details). I reassign this bug report to netcfg for the WEP issue. Many thanks for your report and the good details and explanations it contains.
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature