Put this line in your config to enable non-free firmware in your Live
session
--firmware-chroot "true"\
On 7 February 2014 05:36, Richard Nelson <unix...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 6:31 PM, <ni...@cock.li> wrote:
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>> 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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