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Re: Bug#835062: debain-installer: Preseeding of ESSID is impossible, apparently



Control: reassign -1 debian-installer

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 12:04:50AM +0200, Łukasz Stelmach wrote:
> Package: debain-installer

typo :)

> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> This may be a bug in netcfg or debconf but because I encounter it during
> installation I will file it here.
> 
> I have tried preseeding the name of my WiFi network (ESSID) by providing
> different combinations of values for netcfg/wireles_show_essids and
> netcfg/wireles_essid.
> 
> | case no. | w_s_e   | w_e     |
> |----------+---------+---------|
> |        0 | -unset- | -unset- |
> |        1 | my_net  | -unset- |
> |        2 | -unset- | my_net  |
> |        3 | manual  | my_net  |
> 
> 0. The default case. I am presented with a list and able to choose
> my_net on it.
> 
> 1. I get the list of nets in the air with my_net highlighted. I still
> need to press [Enter] to continue (BUG).
> 
> 2. Looks like 0.
> 
> 3. Looks like 1, except the "Manual" option is highlighted on the
> list. (BUG)
> 
> I expected that setting ESSID in preseed.cfg like
> 
>     d-i netcfg/wireless_essid string my_net
> 
> would prevent presenting me a list of available networks and make the
> installer connect to the one I had set.
> 
> If I were to guess what is wrong I'd say netcfg_wireless_show_essids()
> doesn't handle preseeding correctly like netcfg_get_interface() does.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 8.5
>   APT prefers proposed-updates
>   APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-586
> Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> 
> -- 
> Było mi bardzo miło.                                  --- Rurku. --- ...
> >Łukasz<                                --- To dobrze, że mnie słuchasz.



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