Installer doesn't support WPA

[Tony Houghton]

Binary package hint: debian-installer

WEP wireless security is widely held to be weak so people should use WPA instead. Unfortunately the network setup stage of the installer doesn't support WPA even though wpa_supplicant is now well supported on an installed system. This issue could effectively prevent some users from using a minimal net install disc.

[Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow)]

Shouldn't this be set to ubiquity?

[Tony Houghton (h-realh)]

Isn't ubiquity the LiveCD installer? This bug is for debian-installer ie text-mode install from Alternate CDs. AFAIK WPA does work on Live CDs.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Yes, WPA does work on the live Jaunty CD

[hvoss (hvoss)]

This error still occurs in Kubuntu- and Ubuntu-10.10-Beta versions of mini.iso and alternate.iso.

It's still impossible to install via WPA2-WLAN using one of these CD images.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Finally fixed in Oneiric (after the next debian-installer upload, at any rate) by merging this upstream change:

netcfg (1.66) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Strip trailing dots from domain when writing to /etc/hosts
    (LP: #255117).

  [ Gaudenz Steinlin ]
  * Include WPA support. Thanks to Glen Saberton and Darren Salt
    for the patch. (Closes: #327309)

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