Greetings,
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 6:31 PM, <ni...@cock.li> wrote:
> In late December I installed a dual-boot system of Debian
> Testing and Windows 7. Since the Debian installer CD/DVD did not have
> wifi, I had to take the machine over to where I could access a cable
> connection. I had previously ascertained the wifi card and made sure to
> install the appropriate wifi driver (iwlwifi) on the new system.
> The new system booted successfully and was able to access wifi.
> Wifi performance was irregular. Installing "firmware-linux-nonfree"
> fixed that problem.
> About a week or two later, Windows died, and died messily. I
> had to wipe everything, including the Debian partitions and reinstall.
> I was in a situation where I could only install over wifi, so I
> could not install Debian. I had to use a Mint 16 DVD I had on-hand, as
> it was able to use wifi on boot, and was then able to install over wifi.
> So I've been running Mint and Windows. The system works all
> right, but I now want to replace Mint with Debian.
> This time, I'd like to try Stable instead of Testing. Also, I
> would like to perform the install over wifi.
> I never found a live CD that also had a Debian installer on it.
> Then I heard about the Debian Live project.
> After some days of reading the guide & man pages, combined with
> much trial & error, I was able to produce a custom Debian Stable live CD
> image.
> I put this on a USB stuck and it booted fine. Wow. I had, all
> by myself, made a live CD. That was very cool. I'd never done anything
> like that before. I felt most triumphant.
> There was only one small problem. Despite the fact that I had
> packages for drivers & firmware on the live CD, wifi was not visible.
> The usual list of acess points was not shown. It was as if the machine
> had no wifi card at all. There was not even a wifi device listed on a
> run of ifconfig. Something is not right.
> I used this as my ~/my_live_cd/auto/config file:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> lb config noauto \
> --architectures amd64 \
> --linux-flavours amd64 \
> --distribution wheezy \
> --archive-areas "main contrib non-free" \
> --binary-images iso-hybrid \
> --debian-installer netinst --debian-installer-gui true \
> --mode debian \
> "${@}"
>
> I used four files in ~/my_live_cd_1/config/package-lists
> directory.
>
> * my_list.list (all one one line, but wrapped for email):
> iceweasel lvm2 cryptsetup firmware-iwlwifi firmware-linux-nonfree
> wireless-tools task-laptop screen worker gparted leafpad nano feh
> wifi-radar initramfs-tools irssi scrot alsa sox mhwaveedit
> xserver-xorg-video-intel
>
> * put_installer_on_desktoplist.chroot:
> debian-installer-launcher
>
> * standard.list.chroot:
> ! Packages Priority standard
>
> * desktop.list
> task-lxde-desktop
>
> No other files were created or modified manually: a "lb clean"
> "lb config" "lb build" cycle was use for all other changes.
> So... is there something inherent in live-cds that makes wifi
> impossible, regardless of what packages are included?
> Is there something I am overlooking?
> Thank you in advance.
>
>
Could you share:
1. Specific wifi card?
2. The binary.packages file from your build?
Thanks.
>
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