Bug#1103993: installation-reports: network configuration does not ask for ESSID in Thinkpad P1 Gen7

[Marcin Owsiany <marcin@owsiany.pl>]

czw., 1 maj 2025 o 21:16 Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> napisał(a):

Hi Marcin,

Am 1. Mai 2025 15:17:54 MESZ schrieb Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>:
>On 29/04/2025 at 08:44, Holger Wansing wrote:
>> Am 29. April 2025 00:21:37 MESZ schrieb Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>:
>>> Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> (2025-04-29):
>>>
>>>> - Or warn the user that the wireless interface is not supported yet ? (with
>>>>    a new debconf template, implies translation effort).
>>>
>>> At this stage? That really doesn't look like either reasonable or feasible.
>>
>> I could think of adding a new template, but not mark it as translatable.
>> So it's always in English, and does not break translation status.
>
>PoC: <https://salsa.debian.org/pham/netcfg/-/tree/pham/wifi7-2>
>
>Not sure if I made the new two templates non translatable properly, please check.
>
>Temporary ISO image: <https://salsa.debian.org/pham/netcfg/-/jobs/7517082/artifacts/file/debian/output/debian-202501XX+salsaci+20250501+53-amd64-gtkmini.iso>

Would you mind testing this image as well?

I gave it a go, it seems to work as intended, see attached screenshots.

A couple of notes that I would have found useful on this screen or related docs:

- the installed system (network manager etc) might in fact support WiFi7 just fine

- an USB-attached ethernet interface might be a good enough workaround for installation time

Marcin

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