Re: No wireless after Debian install

On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 08:57:13PM -0500, Cynthia Eliason wrote:
> Subject: Re: [ltp] No wireless after Debian install
> 
>   Thank you! I found and installed the non-free firmware package but it
>   doesn't seem to have changed anything.  I re-started the computer but
>   it is still only offering me the Ethernet connection.  
> 
>    Looking for information I opened the dreaded terminal and typed
>    lspci and it said "command not found."  Tried "iwconfig" and
>    "command not found." 

lspci should be in the pciutils package. iwconfig I think is
deprecated. The "ip" command should give you useful information,
probably with "ip link". It should list all the networking
devices it can find.

    -- Steve

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