15 Apr
2014
15 Apr
'14
7:27 p.m.
On 04/15/2014 06:56 PM, Alexandre wrote:
I am 100% with you here, regarding Debian.
I have tried it a few times. It worked well, but....I like my comfort zone.
So, pee-see-el-oo-es it is
And your remaster has been wonderfull, ...or better, still is.
A hundred time thanks
Tony
On Mon, 14 Apr 2014, Robert Peters wrote:
> On 14 April 2014 00:05, Serghei Amelian <serghei(a)thel.ro> wrote:
>> On Monday 14 April 2014 00:33:16 Robert Peters wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> My Thinkpad laptop has a Lubuntu partition that has wired and
wireless
>>> access: the modules are iwlwifi and
e1000e.
>>> Another partition runs exeGnu Trinity 14 but no internet connection.
>>> I used modprobe to install the above modules and put their names in
>>> /etc/modules, but wlan0 and eth0 are still not seen.
>>> What to do?
>>> Robert
>>>
>> Check dmesg. Most probably you did not installed the firmwares
required
by
>> your network cards.
>> --
>> Serghei
>
>
> True, the network devices don't get loaded. I have copied iwlwifi
> ucode files to /lib/firmware and am trying to find how to get the
> kernel to use them on startup.
> Robert
>
Hi,
Have a good look at the first parts of the dmesg content. It will
probably show you what is missing. These cards needs 2 things, which
is easy to misunderstand how it works:
1. A driver: The driver is needed to let the OS use the hardware.
2. The microcode (sometimes named firmware): The hardware needs the
microcode to work, and it has no link to the operating system. The
only thing that the OS do is to download the microcode in the
hardware. Then, the hardware of the card will work.
Wonder why Debian is so appreciated still in 2014. On PCLinuxOS, 98%
of the time all of your hardware is auto-configured. All of the
required drivers and microcodes are provided as a default, and if
Linux doesn't support at all your card, in the PCLinuxOS Control
Center, you can graphically load your Windows driver to let it be used
by ndiswrapper. In the Network Center, you can see the state of all
your connections very easily. Using the Konsole in not even necessary.
All of these also applies to Mageia too.While Debian is known to be
reliable, it does next to nothing to simplify the life of their users.
So, all I can recommend you is to try my PCLinuxOS non-official TDE
remaster:
http://trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/view/Documentation/LiveCDs
The next release of my LiveCD is also coming in a few weeks, still
based on stable 3.5.13.2.
Have a nice day!
-Alexandre