The file not found is not the problem with your wifi.
The file not found could be because Debian is part way through a repository
update. Wait a day and try again.
On 10 February 2014 04:14, <ni...@cock.li> wrote:
> On 2014-02-07 21:55, Richard Nelson wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 10:37 PM, <ni...@cock.li> wrote:
>>
>> On 2014-02-06 13:36, Richard Nelson wrote:
>>> 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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>>
>> Thank you for the reply.
>>
>> Welcome and we will examine more information below.
>>
>> Also I am moving back to the mailing list since this information may
>> assist other users.
>>
>>
>>
>> 1. Specific wifi card?
>>>
>>> 0d:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 (rev
>>> 73)
>>> Subsystem: Intel Corporation Wireless-N 7260
>>> Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
>>>
>>> 2. The binary.packages file from your build?
>>>
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 3.2.51-1
>>> linux-image-amd64 3.2+46
>>>
>>
>> </snip>
>>
>>
>>
>> Hope that was not too big for a post in a mailing list,
>>> as it was around 30k.
>>>
>>
>> I removed what I did not need and thank you for the complete
>> information.
>>
>> Now I could be wrong but I have ran in to a recent issue that is
>> similar. What I had to do was to move to a more recent kernel which
>> would support my wifi card.
>>
>> In Debian testing the version of the linux kernel according to
>> http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux.html [2] would be 3.12.9-1 .
>> According to
>> [3]http://www.intel.com/support/wireless/wlan/sb/CS-034398.htm [4] for
>>
>> your wifi card you need
>>
>> 3.13+
>> iwlwifi-3160-ucode-22.15.8.0.tgz [5]
>>
>> 3.10+
>> iwlwifi-3160-ucode-22.1.7.0.tgz [6]
>>
>>
>> So my best guess (since I am not fully familiar with Ubuntu) is that
>> the version of Ubuntu had a later kernel and if you look at the kernel
>> above you are using it is to old to support your card. So you could
>> try building with
>>
>> --distribution jessie
>>
>> And that I believe would give you a more recent kernel and a better
>> chance of getting all up and working.
>>
>> Hope this information assists.
>>
>>
>> Links:
>> ------
>> [1] http://lists.debian.org/0c29cda1bd96e17e560a3044cd03a...@cock.li
>> [2] http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux.html
>> [3] http://packages.debian.org/source/testing/linux
>> [4] http://www.intel.com/support/wireless/wlan/sb/CS-034398.htm
>> [5]
>> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi?action=
>> AttachFile&do=get&target=iwlwifi-7260-ucode-22.15.8.0.tgz<http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=iwlwifi-7260-ucode-22.15.8.0.tgz>
>> [6]
>> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi?action=
>> AttachFile&do=get&target=iwlwifi-3160-ucode-22.1.7.0.tgz<http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=iwlwifi-3160-ucode-22.1.7.0.tgz>
>>
>
> So I attempted to build a new image, this time using Testing instead of
> Stable. It failed. Tried again. It kept failing. The last error message
> was this:
>
> P: Begin installing debian-installer...
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian//dists/jessie/main/installer-
> amd64/current/images//netboot/debian-installer/amd64/linux:
> 2014-02-09 11:25:15 ERROR 404: Not Found.
> E: Could not download file: http://ftp.debian.org/debian//
> dists/jessie/main/installer-amd64/current/images//netboot/
> debian-installer/amd64/linux
>
> So, a file not found? I tested by passing that URL to wget and it could
> not the file, either.
>
> I then attempted to build an image without a Debian installer. This time,
> the build completed without error.
>
> Partial success: the image, after transfer to a USB stick, booted and was,
> finally, able to use wifi to get on the network. :)
>
> Problem: no Debian installer on the live system. :(
>
> I'm not sure what to do now. Any ideas?
>
> Thank you in advance
>
>
>
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