pylkko wrote:If you have auth problems for wifi, that most probably does not relate to the kernel modules (drivers)/OS but to some misconfiguration in the network settings.
Even if I experiance the same issue with the root athentification? Then this would be just coincidence. And what about the other systems where I do have the same issues with at least the wifi authentification. I suspect it is different there because those systems employ sudo instead of the root account.
pylkko wrote:When you install the system, you can choose to close the root account or not.
Sorry, I don't get what "close" would mean in this context.
pylkko wrote:I think you overestimate the niceness of having more recent software.
At the moment I went for Trisquel 7 to serve my most pressing needs to have a system that I could at least in principle use for my everyday work until I figured out what I need to do with Debian in order to get all working as intended. But there I encountered that the included version of the Evolution mail client (3.10.4) has issues with Gmail and an other mail account I use because it "Could not connect to 'imap.gmail.com:993': Peer reports incompatible or unsupported protocol version." The most recent version would be 3.24.3. The version 3.12.9 included in Jessie obivously didn't have the same issue, but maybe it doesn't have anything to do with the version after all. This is just the first clue the Gmail documentation gives when encountering this error.
pylkko wrote:Any one with any skills can test programs - in fact just as you have now - and help even if they do not know how to create software/program.
I'm aware that even I can report back if I encounter problems. But putting myself in a situation where I have to expect to encounter complicated situations when I actually need to do urgent work wouldn't be very sensible. Of course I try to give useful feedback if I do encounter problems but as mentioned earlier I am not skilled enough to constantly deal with an unstable system.
pylkko wrote:notice that there were some problems with the original installer
It doesn't seem to be related to what I have issues with since on my system the selection seem to work properly. I only miss the freedom to choose what ever language/localisation-combination I want.
But the clouds seem to lighten slowly: I can connect to at least one other protected wifi network. Therefore, I have to correct myself: Not all new Debian/Lubuntu/Trisquel versions seem to be the problem, but an incompatibility of those new versions with the way my router seems to handle authentication. Maybe these new systems need some other configuration. I will try to find out what to change. The yesterdays update of my router firmware didn't help. ... I reset the router and rebooted it. Afterwards I was suddenly able to connect with Trisquel. Unfortunately I do have still issues with Lubuntu, but I might switch to something else on this little notebook again.
Only the failing root password recognition remains a mystery. Therefore I have looked up how to reset the root password and will try to install Stretch again in order to attempt a repair of the authentication glitch after installation.