On Wed 06 Jun 2012 at 14:24:13 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I've been experimenting with installing Debian on a laptop dedicated to > experimentation. > The results have been satisfactory enough that when I discovered it had a > very dead battery, I took my general usage laptop to library (only > dial-up available at home). I've run the live-CD on this machine so I was
Detail. Which live CD? > expecting no problem. Evidently netinst does not recognize my WiFi > hardware. Would you expand on "does not recognise", please? The messages you see and the type of WiFi service at the library would be helpful information. > It runs fine on WinXP and I believe I've connected via WiFi > with one of the collection of live cd's (a Puppy linux IIRC). No doubt you have. > Questions: > 1. What is command to identify the WiFi hardware? lspci > 2. Once I've identified the required driver, how do I install it when I > can not connect to the internet in first place ;< Don't assume a driver is what is required. Whatever is needed can be downloaded at home. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120606204950.GA4993@desktop
