Bug 28482

Summary: Cannot add remote repositories with RTL8821ce
Product: Mageia Reporter: Omer I.S. <omeritzicschwartz>
Component: InstallerAssignee: Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal CC: davidwhodgins, ouaurelien
Version: 8   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description Omer I.S. 2021-02-28 01:41:10 CET 
Description of problem:
The installer can detect local Wi-Fi networks but not to connect to them using RTL8821ce driver.

How reproducible:
Run the installer with a device using RTL8821ce Wi-Fi card for internet connection.
Comment 1 Dave Hodgins 2021-02-28 02:03:59 CET 
From https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_8_Release_Notes#Available_installation_media ...
Note that by decision, Classic Installer will not use non-free drivers during install, so you may need wired Ethernet if you wish to use online repositories for updates during install.

They nonfree drivers and firmware are on the iso so they can be installed,
but as the question of using nonfree hasn't been asked, they are not used when
the iso boots.

For Mageia 9, hopefully we'll add something like what we have for the Live iso
images so the use of nonfree drivers and firmware can be selected prior to
booting the kernel.

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

Comment 2 Dave Hodgins 2021-02-28 07:00:21 CET 
I'm going to close this bug as a duplicate of bug 28323.

For now, using the netinstall-nonfree iso can be used to have wifi working
during installation. It can be downloaded from
https://www.mageia.org/en-gb/downloads/ selecting the network installation
and then the nonfree cd or directly from a mirror such as
http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/mageia/distrib/8/x86_64/install/images/Mageia-8-netinstall-nonfree-x86_64.iso
Comment 3 Aurelien Oudelet 2021-03-03 14:58:49 CET 
(In reply to Dave Hodgins from comment #2)
> I'm going to close this bug as a duplicate of bug 28323.
> 
> For now, using the netinstall-nonfree iso can be used to have wifi working
> during installation. It can be downloaded from
> https://www.mageia.org/en-gb/downloads/ selecting the network installation
> and then the nonfree cd or directly from a mirror such as
> http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/mageia/distrib/8/x86_64/install/images/
> Mageia-8-netinstall-nonfree-x86_64.iso

Doing so.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 28323 ***

CC: (none) => ouaurelien
Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => DUPLICATE