Re: info on squeeze issue
On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:40:20 +0000 (UTC)
Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 21:14:31 +0000, Richard wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 18:25:47 +0000
> > Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 30 October 2011 17:27, Richard <richard@g8jvm.com> wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I'm about to get Fedora its marching orders on the laptop, If I
> >> > download squeeze are any of the downloads that are kept up to date ?,
> >> > to save the time updating after install ?
> >>
> >> I always use the net install disk. That way almost all the software
> >> will be the latest available in the first place - and last time I
> >> installed it, it automatically updated the few packages that came off
> >> the disk. (I can't remember whether it always does this, but I imagine
> >> so.)
> >>
> > I downloaded that and went to install and immediately hit a problem with
> > wifi. It wants to use WEP, and everything I use is WAP. :(
>
> You meant WPA? (a WAP access would be very slow :-) )
>
> The installer only allows WEP-based encryption method, it is documented
> here:
>
> ***
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch02s01.html.en#network-cards
>
> "(...) Support for encrypted wireless during installation is currently
> limited to WEP. If your access point uses stronger encryption, it cannot
> be used during the installation process."
> ***
>
> You can proceed with the suggested alternatives.
>
> Greetings,
>
Hi , Yes I did mean WPA, dyslexia rules.
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Best wishes / 73
Richard Bown
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