Bug#1032852: debian-installer: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG doen't work for d-i, does work on installed Bookworm
On Sun, 12 Mar 2023 21:39:17 +0000
Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> wrote:
> Hi Charles
>
> Thanks for the bug! Inline are a few questions / things I've seen from
> the log:
>
> On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 03:13:34PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
> [...]
>
> I can see that d-i's firmware detection stuff worked just fine for the
> ipw2200 hardware (yay!):
OK.
>
> wlp2s2 is the wireless interface name,
Correct.
> and the installer is trying to
> use it:
>
> Then I can see lots of errors around running wpasupplicant:
>
> Mar 12 20:54:18 netcfg[5996]: WARNING **: Couldn't read Wpasupplicant
> pid file, not trying to kill. ...
> Mar 12 20:54:24 netcfg[5996]: INFO: Activating interface wlp2s2
> Mar 12 20:54:25 netcfg[5996]: INFO: Scan of wireless interface wlp2s2
> succeeded. Mar 12 20:54:25 netcfg[5996]: INFO: Network chosen: .
> Proceeding to connect. Mar 12 20:54:25 netcfg[5996]: INFO: Couldn't
> connect to wpasupplicant Mar 12 20:54:25 netcfg[5996]: INFO:
> Activating interface wlp2s2 Mar 12 20:54:25 netcfg[5996]: INFO: Scan
> of wireless interface wlp2s2 succeeded. Mar 12 20:54:25 netcfg[5996]:
>
> and these errors go on for a long time :-(
Yes. I eventually hit control-C or otherwise stopped d-i, which is
probably when the log stopped.
>
> You say that you're preseeding things. Could you also please share
> your preseed file in case that is relevant?
Well, drat. I've tried several things in the preseed file, and did not
preserve exactly what I used for wireless in the run that produced
this log file.
I will try it again, this time preserving the preseed file.
I also just looked at the templates.dat file from a previous
installation, and compared that with my preseed file. I have no entry
for "netcfg/wireless_adhoc_managed", so that could be my problem.
For the last run today (not the run that produced the attached syslog),
I have the following:
root@dragon:/media/disk# grep netcfg preseed.cfg | grep -v '^#'
d-i netcfg/link_wait_timeout string 4
d-i netcfg/hostname string dragon
d-i netcfg/wireless_show_essids select manual
d-i netcfg/wireless_essid string Curleynet2
d-i netcfg/wireless_essid_again string Curleynet2
d-i netcfg/wireless_security_type select WPA/WPA2 PSK
d-i netcfg/wireless_wpa string <redacted>
root@dragon:/media/disk#
One other thought: shouldn't there be an option to hash the AP
password (netcfg/wireless_wpa), same as there is to hash the root and
user passwords?
>
> Could you run the installation without preseeding and confirm if the
> wireless works that way please?
>
I have run it with the preseed, but with no "d-i netcfg/wireless"
options enabled. No joy.
I will try that, probably tomorrow.
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