16 Apr
2014
16 Apr
'14
5:20 a.m.
On Tue, 15 Apr 2014, Robert Peters wrote:
On 15 April 2014 07:47, Felmon Davis
<davisf(a)union.edu> wrote:
too bad.
from below I know you have moved on but I'm curious, do you know the
kernel you were using?
uname -a
I've found I've had to update the kernel to get wifi going. (I just
remembered this.)
I think I mentioned I've got it running on a Thinkpad X103e (with
Broadcom drivers).
<snip>
I'm not clear how you determined that the network devices are not loaded.
what did you do?
Lisi said you should run
/sbin/ifconfig -a
but I wasn't sure if you actually ran this command. what did it say? in
particular is 'wlan1' or 'wlan0' there?
have a look at
/etc/network/interfaces
what does it say? in particular, is the following line in there?
iface wlan1 inet dhcp
that may be 'wlan0' instead.
and does lsmod show your iwifi stuff is loaded?
there are a couple more things worth doing but this is enough for now since
I've asked a lot of questions.
I find the debian stuff requires a lot of foolin' to get going but the worst
of it is, once it gets going you don't have to bother with it again for an
eternity so you forget the tricks and then have to re-learn on the rare
occasion when it does fail or you do a new install or something.
I use the exegnu stuff exclusively.
F.
Hello,
/sbin/ifconfig -a showed only the loopback device lo, and
/etc/network/interfaces lists only lo.
I did go to https://wiki.debian.org/iwlwifi, fetched the firmware deb,
copied it into my Trinity partition (it has no internet) and followed
the installation instructions. But after reboot, iwconfig still
showed no wlan device. In reference to the asides on pclinuxos, etc, I found
and tried Linux
Mint Debian with MATE on a live USB - liked it and installed it in
place of my Lubuntu setup. I find its interface much nicer than
Lubuntu or XFCE and like its ability to make a wireless connection on
my newer hardware. I am able to easily install and use some of my
Trinity favorites like Krusader and Gwenview. So for the time being I
will stick with it and avoid further frustration.
Mint is pretty nice. I'm sticking with Debian though. once it's set up
it's out of my face.
Thanks to everyone for all the help and ideas!
it's always an 'education' foolin' with this stuff, so there's at
least that. glad you are good to go!
F.
--
Felmon Davis
filibuster, n.:
Throwing your wait around.