Bug 10647

iw is required by libdrakx-net so it seems strange that is was not installed

can you provide your report.bug in /root/drakx ?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

libdrak-net might require it, but that of course has no effect when that package is not in the list of packages that are installed.

And really a high-level configuration utility is the wrong place for the requires-statement. 

I can attach it if really needed, but as it contains serial numbers etc..., but the relevant part probably is

* compssUsersChoice selected: "Workstation|Configuration", "Workstation|Console Tools", "Workstation|Documentation"

(i.e. choose a rather minimal install, that doesn't inven install useful documentation, since the man utility is not even available (see other bug #10648 for that)
and then later on the configuration-tab configure network â wireless

* do_pkgs_during_install::install
* selecting packages wireless-tools
[...]

And then on the configuration page configure bootloader (reduce waiting time, change nothing else), configure X11, configure the network.

Putting the requires (or suggests, as suggests would be enough for installer) on wireless-tools instead/in addition should solve the problem. Alernatively the configuration utility should determine that it is not in US locale (country selection) and install it)

the package-list:
# You should always check the syntax with 'perl -cw auto_inst.cfg.pl'
# before testing.  To use it, boot with ``linux defcfg=floppy''
$o = {
       'default_packages' => [
			       'locales-en',
			       'libalsa-data',
			       'sharutils',
			       'mtools',
			       'mandi-ifw',
			       'p11-kit',
			       'dvd+rw-tools',
			       'acpi',
			       'wpa_supplicant',
			       'cdrkit',
			       'mkxauth',
			       'groff',
			       'sudo',
			       'nscd',
			       'basesystem',
			       'aria2',
			       'nss',
			       'screen',
			       'lftp',
			       'shorewall-ipv6',
			       'plymouth',
			       'ntfs-3g',
			       'crda',
			       'fonts-ttf-dejavu',
			       'locales-de',
			       'lsof',
			       'lib64zlib1',
			       'gnupg',
			       'x11-driver-video',
			       'mageia-gfxboot-theme',
			       'task-x11',
			       'vim-minimal',
			       'acpid',
			       'dhcp-client',
			       'ldetect',
			       'dosfstools',
			       'urpmi',
			       'netprofile',
			       'grub',
			       'pm-utils',
			       'wireless-tools',
			       'kernel-desktop-latest',
			       'aoss',
			       'radeon-firmware'
			     ]
     };

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)

>libdrak-net might require it, but that of course has no effect when that package >is not in the list of packages that are installed.
well libdrak-net is required by drakxtools-curses which should be installed as you have "Workstation|Configuration"

CC: (none) => ennael1, thierry.vignaud, tmb

Hmm. I'm not really familiar on how that selection works. I can confirm though that drakxtools-curses has not been installed by the installer, only later when I installed gdm.

now my interpretation of the group-stuff:
/run/media/cl/Mageia-3/x86_64/media/media_info/compssUsers.pl sets "CONFIG" flag for the Configuration group.

and /run/media/cl/Mageia-3/x86_64/media/media_info/rpmsrate contains 
CAT_CONFIG
  5 CAT_KDE !LIVE kgamma kcron kdepasswd kleopatra
  3 ipvsadm nut
  2 adjtimex xinput timeconfig samba-swat
  1 ipxutils

documentation at the top of http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/mageia/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/media_info/rpmsrate-raw says that basically everything lower than 4 is ignored/not installed, and the cateory 5 is conditionalized for CAT_KDE. That file also has no other entries for CAT_CONFIG

So in fact that category doesn't do anything when not installing KDE?

It's not listed in meta-task's rpmsrate-raw:

  5 TYPE"wireless" wireless-tools wpa_supplicant rfkill

Thomas, should we install it when there's wifi?

Summary: iw package not installed, resulting in failure to set CRDA and thus not being able to connect to wlan => iw package not installed in mininmal install => failure to set CRDA => not being able to connect to wlan
Source RPM: (none) => meta-task

Oh yes indeed, you cant do much wireless without it

Just fixed in meta-task then

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => sysadmin-bugs
Component: Installer => Release (media or process)
Resolution: (none) => FIXED

Thomas, could you push meta-task?

commit 9c5d20c705e029352b636886253e8560ed0640f8
Author: Thomas Backlund <tmb@...>
Date:   Sun May 10 23:42:46 2015 +0300

    last commit also fixes mga#15875 that got broken by mga#10647
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 Commit Link:
   http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drakx/commit/?id=9c5d20c705e029352b636886253e8560ed0640f8

 Bug links:
   Mageia
      https://bugs.mageia.org/15875
      https://bugs.mageia.org/10647