Confused about netinst

2009-05-09 Thread Muzer 
I'm a little confused about the netinst CD, on whether or not it 
supports WiFi cards. Your site says it doesn't, yet I've seen lots of 
forums and bug reports in which people seem to install it correctly. Can 
someone claify this? Thanks! Muzer.



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Re: Confused about netinst

2009-05-09 Thread Andrei Popescu 
On Sat,09.May.09, 17:59:09, Muzer wrote:
 I'm a little confused about the netinst CD, on whether or not it  
 supports WiFi cards. Your site says it doesn't, yet I've seen lots of  
 forums and bug reports in which people seem to install it correctly. Can  
 someone claify this? Thanks! Muzer.

Could you please post the link?

From my experience the installer can detect wifi cards (it will need 
firmware for many of them), but can't use WPA/WPA2 to connect (only 
WEP). Hope I'm not mistaken, it's been a while.

Regards,
Andrei
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Re: Confused about netinst

2009-05-09 Thread Daryl Styrk 
On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 10:45:30PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
 
 Could you please post the link?
 
 From my experience the installer can detect wifi cards (it will need 
 firmware for many of them), but can't use WPA/WPA2 to connect (only 
 WEP). Hope I'm not mistaken, it's been a while.
 
 Regards,
 Andrei

That has been my experience with the installer and a Intel Corporation
PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN.  You will run into a section asking you if
you'd like to load firmware from another device such as a USB disk.
However the one time I did try to load the firmware it failed.  That was a
while ago and could very easily been user error.  I asked about WPA/WPA2
support coming and was told it is being worked on and should be
incorporated in the Squeeze installer.  

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Re: Confused about netinst

2009-05-09 Thread Daryl Styrk 
On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 09:02:59PM +0100, Muzer wrote:
 Daryl Styrk wrote:
 On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 10:45:30PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
   

 That has been my experience with the installer and a Intel Corporation
 PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN.  You will run into a section asking you if
 you'd like to load firmware from another device such as a USB disk.
 However the one time I did try to load the firmware it failed.  That was a
 while ago and could very easily been user error.  I asked about WPA/WPA2
 support coming and was told it is being worked on and should be
 incorporated in the Squeeze installer.  

   
 I'm not interested in WPA{,2} support. The output from lspci is: 05:01.0  
 Network controller: RaLink RT2600 802.11 MIMO

 I think the module it uses is rt2x00pci. Not sure what firmware, if  
 any, it uses; how can I check on my current installation?

 Will this work out of the box with the network install?

I'm not exactly sure for you.  The installer did detect the firmware
required and asked if I'd like to load it from USB.  I'd say throw in the
NetInstallCD and see.. Come back with what it asks for and then we can
track it down.  

$ locate firmware |grep ucode
/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode
/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-4965-1.ucode
/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode

If I remember correctly the installer was asking for the 4965 ucode.

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Re: Confused about netinst

2009-05-09 Thread consultores1 
On May 9, 2009 12:45:30 pm Andrei Popescu wrote:
 On Sat,09.May.09, 17:59:09, Muzer wrote:
  I'm a little confused about the netinst CD, on whether or not it
  supports WiFi cards. Your site says it doesn't, yet I've seen lots of
  forums and bug reports in which people seem to install it correctly. Can
  someone claify this? Thanks! Muzer.

 Could you please post the link?

 From my experience the installer can detect wifi cards (it will need
 firmware for many of them), but can't use WPA/WPA2 to connect (only
 WEP). Hope I'm not mistaken, it's been a while.

 Regards,
 Andrei

From my experience, none wifi card, what i have tried, works with the 
installer!
I've tried rtl8187L and  d-link g-122 on lenny/testing/sid, that do not need 
firmware and the results were negatives. 

Thanks.


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