On Donnerstag, 29. September 2016 10:09:45 PYT Dan Purgert wrote: > <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.
In that case get yourself an install-medium from this place http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/ Cheers Eike
