On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 09:15:07AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 10/13/2021 03:22 PM, Tixy wrote:
On Wed, 2021-10-13 at 10:16 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
It appears to me that netinst.iso assumes that there are *exactly* two
choices for internet connectivity:
an ethernet device
*OR*
WiFi
However, I use a USB device [ an Alcatel Linkzone from T-Mobile ]
The installer is unable to see the internet.
I just downloaded the latest netinst [1] and booted that with my
ethernet cable disconnected and my phone connected to USB for 'USB
Tethering'. The installer first tries automatically configuring the
'eno1' interface (wired ethernet) then after failing moves on to 'usb0'
(my phone) which succeeds in configuring a network connection using
DHCP.
So it seems the installer will work fine with a USB wireless network
device if it presents itself as a CDC device to the kernel, supporting
the Remote NDIS protocol. It make work in other cases, that's just what
my phone does and what I tested.
[1] https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-11.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso
That version did an install without any problems.
I just discovered that one of my problems [selecting a Grub menu entry
resulting in an infinite loop until Linkzone unplugged] had been solved at
Debian 10.7 or earlier.
Hi Richard,
There's a good reason why I keep suggesting that people use the latest
versions of Debian and Debian installers. Each version brings its own
bugs but alos bug fixes. Bugs are always with us but the asymptotic
trend is that the bug fixes outnumber the newly introduced bugs.
All the very best, as ever,
Andy Cater