Re: bsdinstall wifi setup is broken on CURRENT

From: Renato Botelho <garga_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 18:56:30 UTC
On 16/05/24 15:47, Jessica Clarke wrote:
> On 16 May 2024, at 19:40, Renato Botelho <garga@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>
>> I saw some users on a .br group complaining bsdinstall was failing to setup wifi network on 15.0 snapshots and tried it myself.  I was able to reproduce the problem and also noticed another one.
>>
>> I noticed Network Selection screen only shows one line, it's not beautiful to navigate through items this way.  On 14.1-BETA2 it shows multiple lines so it seems to be a regression.
>>
>> The problem users reported was: after selecting desired network it just starts over instead of asking for password.  I made a video [1] showing the problem.
>>
>> Jessica, I've cc'd you because git shows you were the last person making changes in this area.  If it's not related and I made a mistake, just ignore me.
> 
> Hi Renato,
> I touched the code that lets you select the wireless interface in the
> first place, but not the script that then gets called to set it up and
> is responsible for the dialogs you see. Given the behaviour, I wonder
> if this is what today’s import of bsddialog[1] fixes? From reading the
> script the next dialog uses --mixedform, and restarts the script on
> error, which it looks like is what you observe.

Thanks for pointing that out, Jessica.  I'll wait for the next 15 
snapshot and will check.

I'm not sure about a good way to test it on a running system instead.

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Renato Botelho