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Bug#1112138: debian-installer: WiFi setup with automated installation.



Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> writes:

> At no time do I get the opportunity to configure the WiFi interface manually, all of which is in my preseed file.

How are you providing the preseed file?

(I presume not via url=... (with a network URI) as that would mean that
it would only be available after the network comes up, which would be
too late to configure the wifi.)

I forget the exact details of the wifi settings that need to be
preseeded, but it sounds like the use of Automatic install (which sets
auto-install/enable=true and debconf/priority=critical for you) is
preventing the prompt for the passphrase from appearing, and as a result
of that it's then effectively complaining about an unset value.

I'd suggest that you try again, while adding 'DEBCONF_DEBUG=5' on the
kernel command line, and when you get to the point where you'd hope to
be able to set the wifi settings, flip to the console on Ctrl-Alt-F4 to
see what the syslog is showing regarding the questions it's not asking
you -- you can see the same thing on e.g. Ctrl-Alt-F2 and editing the
/var/log/syslog (with nano or maybe vi), which has the advantage of
letting you search and move about.

That should allow you to see if my guess is correct, and will hopefully
provide clues on how to get it working for you.

Cheers, Phil.
-- 
Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil

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