Bug#955590: debian-installer: Include option to install wireless utilities even if wlan interface not detected
Package: debian-installer
Severity: wishlist
Tags: d-i
Dear Maintainer,
Sometimes wifi interfaces require additional work after the install is completed before they can be used.
Not having packages such as 'iw' or 'wpa-supplicant' present on the system immediately after the install makes this much more difficult, sometimes requiring sneakernet with usb drives and packages.debian.org or similar.
These packages are present in the installer, though, so it would be much better if they could be manually selected during the install process.
Thanks,
sney
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
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