Bug 1927325
| Summary: | [RFE] Anaconda does not support kickstart with wifi settings. | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Scott Mattan <scott.mattan> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | anaconda-maint-list, jkonecny, jonathan, kellin, vanmeeuwen+fedora, vponcova, vslavik, woiling, wwoods |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
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| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |
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| Last Closed: | 2023-07-11 13:19:51 UTC | Type: | Bug |
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Description
Scott Mattan
2021-02-10 14:23:03 UTC
Switching to Rawhide, as there was no change in the linked code + marking as RFE. https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/blob/master/pyanaconda/modules/network/initialization.py#L87-L91 Seems to be an issue of dracut: essid, wepkey, wpakey Dracut doesn’t support wireless networking, so these don’t do anything. https://anaconda-installer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/boot-options.html#removed-options Mmh, thinking twice about it, that can't be right, because it's possible to configure WIFI manually in Anaconda. The also this bug report for pykickstart: https://github.com/pykickstart/pykickstart/issues/338 It turns out Anaconda informs about not supporting WIFI. However it hides this information in the log files: https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/blob/master/pyanaconda/modules/network/initialization.py#L93 While support for WIFI would really be appreciated, can we at least stop installation and throws an error as suggested in [1]? [1] https://github.com/pykickstart/pykickstart/pull/450#issuecomment-1502089471 This RFE is definitely valid use case. However, I would like to know your use-case. Wi-Fi are not usually used in environments where kickstart is used, so I'm not convinced that this feature would be adopted broadly. The workaround for this could be a %pre section in kickstart file to setup the network. Thanks for everyone looking into this. My particular usecase is for automating setting up of corporate laptops with Fedora Workstation.
> The workaround for this could be a %pre section in kickstart file to setup the network.
This is a nice workaround I will use this for now, if we need to close this ticket we can, but it would be nice for official support of this feature.
Thanks for the reply. We will think about that but as I explained above, it's pretty rare scenario for usual kickstart environment, so I'm closing this ticket now. |