Bug 846169

Summary: linuxrc: set keyboard layout before first dialog
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 13.1 Reporter: Ulf Michel <u.michel>
Component: InstallationAssignee: Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Minor    
Priority: P5 - None CC: mvidner
Version: RC 1   
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Hardware: x86-64   
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Description Ulf Michel 2013-10-16 09:19:03 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0

Entering the wireless network information is the fist task in a network install. When entering the network passphrase the entered characters are not identical to the intended character due to the actual keyboard, which is different from the US english keyboard that is apparently assumed.

The actual keyboard should be installed first.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 2 Martin Vidner 2013-11-08 10:10:07 UTC 
I assume linuxrc (the text mode dialogs) handle this before YaST starts.
Comment 3 Steffen Winterfeldt 2013-11-08 10:37:43 UTC 
Is this some text mode dialog on blue background?
Did you boot from an UEFI BIOS?
Comment 4 Ulf Michel 2013-11-08 10:49:10 UTC 
With respect to comment 2:

The first menu on a netinstall has three items
- Installation
- Rescue System
- Check Installation Media

If you select Installation you get a new menu with the title
WLAN Authentication

This should be preceded by the language and keyboard dialogue.

With respect to comment 3:
I did boot from UEFI BIOS and it is a text mode dialog (I have to check on the background)
Comment 5 Ulf Michel 2013-11-08 10:59:22 UTC 
Yes the background is blue.
You have an option BACK in the WLAN Authentication menu, which opens up a new menu in which you can enter language and keyboard, but you cannot return to the WLAN Authentication menu.

The WLAN Authentication menu should be preceded by a at least a keyboard dialog.
Comment 6 Steffen Winterfeldt 2013-11-08 11:53:47 UTC 
With UEFI you don't have a chance to set the keyboard at the boot screen. So
linuxrc should offer a menu.
Comment 7 Steffen Winterfeldt 2016-08-04 12:35:34 UTC 
tracking this in bug 991373

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 991373 ***