On Sun, 12 Mar 2023 21:39:17 +0000 Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> wrote:
> Hi Charles > > Thanks for the bug! Inline are a few questions / things I've seen from > the log: > > On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 03:13:34PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > [...] > > I can see that d-i's firmware detection stuff worked just fine for the > ipw2200 hardware (yay!): OK. > > wlp2s2 is the wireless interface name, Correct. > and the installer is trying to > use it: > > Then I can see lots of errors around running wpasupplicant: > > Mar 12 20:54:18 netcfg[5996]: WARNING **: Couldn't read Wpasupplicant > pid file, not trying to kill. ... > Mar 12 20:54:24 netcfg[5996]: INFO: Activating interface wlp2s2 > Mar 12 20:54:25 netcfg[5996]: INFO: Scan of wireless interface wlp2s2 > succeeded. Mar 12 20:54:25 netcfg[5996]: INFO: Network chosen: . > Proceeding to connect. Mar 12 20:54:25 netcfg[5996]: INFO: Couldn't > connect to wpasupplicant Mar 12 20:54:25 netcfg[5996]: INFO: > Activating interface wlp2s2 Mar 12 20:54:25 netcfg[5996]: INFO: Scan > of wireless interface wlp2s2 succeeded. Mar 12 20:54:25 netcfg[5996]: > > and these errors go on for a long time :-( Yes. I eventually hit control-C or otherwise stopped d-i, which is probably when the log stopped. > > You say that you're preseeding things. Could you also please share > your preseed file in case that is relevant? Well, drat. I've tried several things in the preseed file, and did not preserve exactly what I used for wireless in the run that produced this log file. I will try it again, this time preserving the preseed file. I also just looked at the templates.dat file from a previous installation, and compared that with my preseed file. I have no entry for "netcfg/wireless_adhoc_managed", so that could be my problem. For the last run today (not the run that produced the attached syslog), I have the following: root@dragon:/media/disk# grep netcfg preseed.cfg | grep -v '^#' d-i netcfg/link_wait_timeout string 4 d-i netcfg/hostname string dragon d-i netcfg/wireless_show_essids select manual d-i netcfg/wireless_essid string Curleynet2 d-i netcfg/wireless_essid_again string Curleynet2 d-i netcfg/wireless_security_type select WPA/WPA2 PSK d-i netcfg/wireless_wpa string <redacted> root@dragon:/media/disk# One other thought: shouldn't there be an option to hash the AP password (netcfg/wireless_wpa), same as there is to hash the root and user passwords? > > Could you run the installation without preseeding and confirm if the > wireless works that way please? > I have run it with the preseed, but with no "d-i netcfg/wireless" options enabled. No joy. I will try that, probably tomorrow. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
