Bug#441215: rt2500-source: RT2500STA.dat not mentioned in INSTALL.debian

[Aurelien Jarno]

severity 441215 minor
thanks

Robert Moonen a écrit :
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> Subject: rt2500-source: RT2500STA.dat not mentioned in INSTALL.debian
> Package: rt2500-source
> Version: 1.1.0+cvs20060
> Severity: important
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> Nobody told me I had to edit the /etc/Wireless/RT2500STA/RT2500STA.dat
> file, if I had known about that I would have clicked that the reason I
> wasn't getting an IP although everything else looked perfect, was
> because the default value for auth was AuthMode=SHARED when my system
> uses AuthMode=OPEN.
> I mean there is a quickstart file for debian users called INSTALL.debian
> that ships with the rt2500-source.deb, however this file make no mention of
> RT2500STA.dat which gets installed as above.
> Now seeing that RT2500STA.dat ships with a default Auth setting of
> SHARED, that file should be mentioned in INSTALL.debian.

This file is created by the package rt2500 and not rt2500-source. If you
installed rt2500, you supposed to use this tool to configure your
wireless card.

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