[tde-users] Re: OT - installing whonix / qubes ?

To Michael or whoever else is interested. chapter 1 - The Adventure Begins So the most curious thing ... to me, anyway ... I upgraded the hard drive in my laptop, that went fine, then booted up the Qubes installation iso. After a bit of futzing round with it, I got it to install more or less like a would do for a Debian or Devuan system. Somehow or other, wifi is disabled. I am not sure if I did that, in trying to keep my machine from connecting automatically. I hate that kind of thing, machines that try to do my thinking for me. If there is a way to get the wifi going without either wifi or an ethernet connection, please holler! I considered abandoning Qubes until I had studied more about the wifi problem. So I considered returning to Debian/Devuan, intending to return to Qubes later. Except, here is that curious thing. When I tried to install both Debian and Devuan, my screen goes crazy. I get weird psychedelic lines across the screen, like it can't display the plain Debian/Devuan expert installation shell. We have wireless internet here. There is nowhere for me to plug into ethernet for a direct connection. So, I have got this far. Qubes looks nice, seems to run well, except for this snag. It will be nice to get out of this xfce desktop and into TDE again. 1. How do I get connected to the Internet? so that I can proceed to the next phase. I've already tried iwconfig and ifconfig and ifup and ifdown and all that. 2. Also, the xfce file manager, caja, is there, but I cannot get it to start up. Do I need to create new Qubes in order to do these things? Please feel free to take this over to my private email: doctor<underscore>contendo<at>zoho<dot>com Thanks for any help or suggestions! Bill