Michael Gilbert wrote: > i'm using the i386 debian-installer RC2 > (http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/rc2/sarge-i386-netinst.iso) > on a dell inspiron 8200 laptop with a dell truemobile 1150 wlan card > on a TI PCI-1410 cardbus. i use a non-standard SSID and a secure WEP > key on my wireless network. during the debian-installer
Hope you realize that "secure WEP" is an oxymoron. Anyway, what kind of interface does your wireless card have? Is it a pcmcia device? > if i do "iwconfig," i see that eth1 has "no wireless extensions" and > that instead eth2 appears to have settings relating to a wireless > interface, but the SSID and WEP key are not configured (eth0 is my > wired lan connection which also says "no wireless extensions"). > now, if i do "ifconfig," i get lo which appears to do it's thing > correctly (i can ping localhost) and only get an eth1 which says > "UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST" as if it's attempting to contact the > dhcp server, but is just unable to. there is no eth2 when i do > "ifconfig." if i look in "/etc/network/interfaces," the eth1 section > does have the SSID and WEP key settings that i had set up earlier at the > beginning of the install. as an aside, my secure WEP key is stored > as plain-text in this file (potentially part of the problem and maybe > a security issue?). This could happen if the installer for some reason brought up the interfaces in a different order than the installed system. So wireless was eth1 during the installation process, and your wired ethernet was either eth2 or was not detected. Then when booting the installed system it loads the driver for wired and then wireless. To track this down it would help to know what bus (pcmcia, pci, usb, whatever) is used for both your wireless and wired interfaces, and also what kernel modules are loaded to drive them (lsmod) and probably your PCI bus information (lspci; lspci-n). -- see shy jo
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