Michael Biebl wrote: > First, installing over wireless is certainly not the norm
Amazon is currently selling $350 laptops on which Debian can be installed over wireless (ath9k) without even needing non-free firmware. > open wireless networks are not that common either. That is highly location-dependant, and not true in large regions of eg, the United States. Here is one statistic from http://www.wigle.net/gps/gps/main/stats/ Networks with crypto: 14,688,344 (49.8%) Networks without crypto: 7,988,171 (27.1%) Also, it's not as if d-i is never going to support WPA. > And second, allow-hotplug not working on your system is afaics due to a buggy > driver. That may be the case -- the driver on my laptop is iwlagn, and on a laptop with ath9k, an event does seem to be generated on boot. But even if that is the case, this still stands: a. Would you really want laptops' wireless interfaces to be managed by ifupdown on a system with network-manager, by default? b. squeeze is heavily frozen, and it is far, far to late in the release cycle to be making big changes to either d-i or network-manager. -- see shy jo
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