Re: No Ethernet and no Wi-Fi after "apt-get dist-upgrade"

Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.user.laptop
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 25.11.17 14:36, Patrice wrote:
>I already installed the iwlwifi package and nothing changed.
>Before the upgrade all went fine.
>It is weird that ethernet and wifi are disabled.

btw, did you turn the laptop on and off? could help.

>What do you mean by firmwares, drivers?

no. it's the firmware-* packages that contain firmware for some pieces of
hardware.

firmware-iwlwifi should fix your centrino wi-fi

>> Am 25.11.2017 um 14:28 schrieb Gerard Bekhuis <[email protected]>:
>> yes I have installed firmware.

are you the original poster of this thread?

>>> Am 25.11.2017 um 14:14 schrieb Matus UHLAR - fantomas:
>>>> On 25.11.17 12:58, Patrice wrote:
>>>> yesterday I upgraded my Laptop, an IBM T520 with Jessie installed. It´s
>>>> now running on 3.16.04.  After the reboot the Wi-fi and Ethernet
>>>> connection were gone, and I can`t connect to anything.  I don`t know
>>>> where to search or look to find out what`s wrong.

>>> do you have firmwares installed?
>>> It's quite common that some laptops' network cards require binary firmware
>>> installed.
>>> They are often found in non-free debian archive, whith is not used by
>>> default (iirc, you must turn it on at installation time).
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