Re: Network issues with lan and wifi
On Sat 28 Jan 2012 at 17:47:44 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> At this point in history the debian-installer only supports WEP wifi
> networking and does not support WPA/WPA2. Yet. All things happen
> eventually. So if you were trying to connect to an open wifi access
> point it should have been fine. If you were trying to connect to an
> access point with WEP it should have been possible, if somewhat
> tedious to configure. But if you were trying to connect to a WPA/WPA2
> access point you would have been blocked by the fact that there isn't
> code in the program to do it.
The upcoming d-i for Wheezy has progressed very well towards installing
over WiFi with a WPA/WPA2 access point. Anyone who has no other means of
connecting to a network (or just finds it more convenient) is likely to
find it useful. A daily businesscard iso will also install Squeeze,
although a downside is /e/n/i has to be rejigged to use wpa_supplicant
instead of wireless-tools.
> much better than NetworkManager. The third option is to do it the
> long manual way using your own full configuration.
Getting the wpasupplicant package and adding four lines to /e/n/i is not
my idea of a lengthy process. :)
> For a mobile device I recommend wicd. For a fixed device that uses
> wifi, if I had one of those of my own then I would use a fixed,
> manually specified wpa_supplicant configuration.
A competently set up wpa_supplicant performs quite decently all by
itself in a roaming context, Add on wpagui for a clickety-click GUI.
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