On Sat 28 Jan 2012 at 17:47:44 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > At this point in history the debian-installer only supports WEP wifi > networking and does not support WPA/WPA2. Yet. All things happen > eventually. So if you were trying to connect to an open wifi access > point it should have been fine. If you were trying to connect to an > access point with WEP it should have been possible, if somewhat > tedious to configure. But if you were trying to connect to a WPA/WPA2 > access point you would have been blocked by the fact that there isn't > code in the program to do it.
The upcoming d-i for Wheezy has progressed very well towards installing over WiFi with a WPA/WPA2 access point. Anyone who has no other means of connecting to a network (or just finds it more convenient) is likely to find it useful. A daily businesscard iso will also install Squeeze, although a downside is /e/n/i has to be rejigged to use wpa_supplicant instead of wireless-tools. > much better than NetworkManager. The third option is to do it the > long manual way using your own full configuration. Getting the wpasupplicant package and adding four lines to /e/n/i is not my idea of a lengthy process. :) > For a mobile device I recommend wicd. For a fixed device that uses > wifi, if I had one of those of my own then I would use a fixed, > manually specified wpa_supplicant configuration. A competently set up wpa_supplicant performs quite decently all by itself in a roaming context, Add on wpagui for a clickety-click GUI. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120129175455.GG23866@desktop
