Re: No wireless after Debian install

On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 06:31:30PM +1300, cr wrote:
> Subject: Re: [ltp] No wireless after Debian install
> 
> When I upgraded to Debian 10 (which I did with a new install) I made
> sure to download a netinst .ISO image which included the 'non-free' 
> iwlwifi drivers - this meant I downloaded the image from 
> cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/nonfree/cd-including-firmware/

Could you please check this link again? It didn't work for me,
but I would find such an image very useful. It looks like the
files in unofficial are very much out of date.

> On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 22:50:13 -0500
> Cynthia Eliason <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Thank you for pointing out what I should have known, and
> > thanks to Basil for pointing me in the right direction to
> > find and install the firmware. 

You're welcome, but "what I should have known" is perhaps too
strong. When networkmanager first appeared on the scene,
unannounced as far as I could tell, it took me ages to figure it
out. A couple of years later I finally also discovered its
commandline version, nmcli, which helps for scripting different
wifit setups.

    -- Steve

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