> On Mon, 14 Apr 2014, Robert Peters wrote:
>
> > On 14 April 2014 00:05, Serghei Amelian <serghei@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