Hi all, I have a desktop with Debian 9.9 (Stretch) installed. I have moved it in a house were cable connection is not available but wifi is (thanks neighbors), so I used an older wifi adapter that I have. The adapter is (according to lsusb) a "ralink technology corp rt2870/rt3070 wireless adapter".
I followed the advice from the wiki page [wiki.debian.org/rt2800usb] and downloaded the "firmware-misc-nonfree" package. I moved it to the offline PC with a USB flash key and then used the following command to install the package: # dpkg -i /path/to/package/firmware-misc-nonfree_20161130-5_all.deb However wifi is still not working. I can confirm with aptitude that the package is installed. And I re-plugged the USB adapter and rebooted the PC just to be sure. Any advice? Dalios PS: I copy here the output of the dpkg -i command in case it is usefull: # dpkg -i /path/to/package/firmware-misc-nonfree_20161130-5_all.deb Selecting previously unselected package firmware-misc-nonfree. (Reading database ... 123562 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../firmware-misc-nonfree_20161130-5_all.deb ... Unpacking firmware-misc-nonfree (20161130-5) ... Setting up firmware-misc-nonfree (20161130-5) ... update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.130) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.9.0-9-amd64 W: initramfs-tools configuration sets RESUME=UUID=899bb006-1e73-4c73-905b-bdeedc70863c W: but no matching swap device is available. I: The initramfs will attempt to resume from /dev/sda4 I: (UUID=cf902f00-578b-4b33-b529-7aca95aab455) I: Set the RESUME variable to override this. #
