On Saturday 29 October 2016 20:17:03 Brian wrote: > On Sat 29 Oct 2016 at 17:26:38 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Saturday 29 October 2016 15:30:51 Carl Fink wrote: > > > On 10/29/2016 10:21 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 26 October 2016 18:24:04 Carl Fink wrote: > > > >> Thanks. > > > >> > > > >> I actually remember seeing it now that you remind me. > > > >> > > > >> Define "desktop". I set up Xfce4. > > > > > > > > But did you do so DURING INSTALLATION? So the complete question, > > > > which you have still not answered in its entirety, was: > > > > "Did you install a desktop during the installation?" > > > > > > > > Desktop is as defined in tasksel during the installation. (Tasksel > > > > uses the actual word "desktop") > > > > > > > > The "during", which you have continued to ignore, is important and > > > > could be the crux of your problem. > > > > > > Quibble: not "ignore". Fail to understand the question. Functionally > > > thea > > What was there not to understand. To quote: > > Did you install a desktop *during* the installation? > > The "during" is highlighted. It's an easy enough question to answer. How > many mails was it before we got a definitive answer? > > > > same, intentionality different. > > > > > > Yes, during installation. > > Not that it will alter the OP's point of view: the functionality of > installing Xfce from the installer is not the same as installing from a > running system. > > > Right, so that is not the problem. I'm afraid I stand by my ignore - you > > clearly do understand "during", so you were ignoring it!! ;-) > > > > Did you install the laptop stuff during installation? If not, try > > rerunning tasksel (it is a command that is available and seems not to > > require root) and making sure that you have got the laptop stuff as well > > as the desktop stuff. I don't know what you do about the fact that you > > have not at this moment got running wi-fi, which you did have last time > > you ran tasksel, but run it anyway and see if it helps. > > Running tasksel will not repeat or replicate the d-i environment.
No, but there might be a/some package(s) missing that is/are crucial to wi-fi, that a running of tasksel would install. I should have thought that it was worth a try. You know that I am no wi-fi guru, but packages that are crucial to wi-fi are bound to be included in a collection of software tailored for laptops. Lisi > He hadn't got running wi-fi because he had cocked something up. Maybe he > has it now,
