On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:30:40 -0700 (PDT) "gnubayonne-debian...@yahoo.com gnubayonne-debian...@yahoo.com" suggested this:
>From Camaleón's comment, it sounds like using a wireless network to do >an install is generally a problem, has anyone had success with a >wireless install? I'm worried if I ever need to reinstall when I'm not >in my home, it would not work. I don't know if I could get a wired >network port away from home. I have had the experience as what you say Camaleón has mentioned. Never been able to install from a wireless network straight up. Have used a wired network to get the basic system that boots up. Then installed wireless-tools, non free firmware etc.. to try to connect to a wireless network. Have installed wicd also, usually, to get wireless recognised by my /etc/network/interfaces entries and then installed the rest of the packages to complete the system installation. Without wicd, ifup wlan0 doesn't seem to work. So I leave it on the system. If it starts up and finds the wireless network I use that connection, if it doesn't I invoke ifup wlan0 and use that. It appears, in my case at least, that wireless just isn't as straight forward as it probably should be in Debian. On a dual boot laptop, windows XP finds it straight away. Ce la vie. We're using Debian to learn, not because it's easy, are we? Hope that helps. Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 *********************************************** Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it. ...Henry David Thoreau *********************************************** Debian GNU/Linux - just the best way to create magic ----------------------------------------------------- -- 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/20110813121612.367c00d0@taowild
