On Tue, Apr 28, 2015, at 07:13, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote:
On 28 April 2015 at 05:21, H8H <h8h@dev-nu11.de> wrote:
Don't get me wrong, but it is annoying to configure the whole wirless stuff and netctl just said, STOP! There is ONE missing dependency: wpa_supplicant. ONLY ONE PACKAGE I MISSED TO REACH THE WORLD :-(
You are given the freedom to choose what to install when you pacstrap your system. You assumed the pacstrap would mirror the live environment, and never bothered to check what "base" actually includes, or whether your system has been configured as intended.
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I'll reserve my opinions on including wpa_supplicant in base, but I feel that it at least deserves a mention in the Arch Installation Guide. It's strange to me that the installer has better networking support than the base system. I've installed Arch on 5 different laptops, and I've forgotten about wpa_supplicant on every one of them. Maybe something like "Other packages or groups can be installed by appending their names to the above command (space seperated), possibly including the boot loader or wireless networking packages" under "Install the base packages". Thoughts?