<to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 03:30:04PM -0700, hol...@cox.net wrote: >> Clean install of deb8 (jessie)on my Thinkpad T4220i laptop. went well >> except for the fact that the network configuration >> with DCP failed. > > This is probably DHCP. That means that the laptop tries to ask in > the local network for an IP address and gets assigned one by the > (local) DHCP server, which these days typically is the internet > router.
It could be as simple as the laptop requires non-free drivers (e.g. Intel), which were not installed as part of the Debian setup process. I had that issues with Wheezy and an Intel 7260 WLAN card. -- |_|O|_| Registered Linux user #585947 |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281
