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Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 16:45:06 GMT
From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: 6.0-RELEASE (i386) cannot be installed via wlan/wep
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>Number:         90656
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       sysinstall(8): 6.0-RELEASE (i386) cannot be installed via wlan/wep
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-sysinstall
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Dec 19 16:50:02 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:    
>Last-Modified:  Wed Jul 14 05:00:16 UTC 2010
>Originator:     Matthias Buelow
>Release:        6.0-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
              Trying to configure a wlan interface (wi0, in that case) during installation (bootonly cd) for use with wep fails with:

ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Invalid argument
ieee80211_load_module: load the wlan_wep module by hand for now.

There's no way to load the module (except if you happen to have it on a floppy CD, or rather, if you have a floppy drive at all), and it doesn't seem to exist on the bootonly CD either.

This worked Ok with 5.x, afair.

>How-To-Repeat:
              Get the i386 6.0-R bootonly ISO cd and try to install via wep-encrypted wlan.

>Fix:
              
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-qa 
Responsible-Changed-By: linimon 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Dec 19 20:23:17 UTC 2005 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Over to maintainer(s). 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=90656 
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-sysinstall 
Responsible-Changed-By: gavin 
Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Jul 13 13:37:16 UTC 2010 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Over to maintainer(s) 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=90656 

From: Randi Harper <randi@freebsd.org>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org,
 mkb@incubus.de
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/90656: sysinstall(8): 6.0-RELEASE (i386) cannot be installed via wlan/wep
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:56:49 -0700

 Installing over wireless is a bad idea in general.
 
 That aside, is this still an issue in 8.x? I don't think we actually =
 support installing over wireless - although I suppose technically you =
 can pass the extra options over in ifconfig.=20=
>Unformatted:
