On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 4:20 PM David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 15 Oct 2024 at 20:33:09 (+0100), debian-user wrote: > > If I click on either of the bookworm-backports links above (either http > > or https) my browser takes me to http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ and in > > the dists/ directory I see [DIR] bookworm-backports/ > > dists will take you to the Packages files, whereas you want > pool for the .deb files themselves. Or just go to: > > https://packages.debian.org/index > > where you can tell which .deb belongs to what suite. > > > Is that what you're looking for? > > That's getting hard to discern. AIUI the OP got the latest firmware > in the end (202600 bytes), but as that doesn't fix the problem,
Correct. I got the firmware from the Ubuntu Live USB stick - where wireless works on the laptop. Reboot into Debian and wifi is broken again. Then I reverted that set of firmware and got the latest from backports, but that does not fix the problems with wifi either. I also got the latest linux-image-amd64 from backports -- but again, wifi is still mostly broken in Debian. "mostly broken" because as long as the laptop in within about 6 feet of the AP wifi works. Take the laptop into a different room & there's no indication I can see (but what do I know?) that wifi quit working but I can't ping anything else on the subnet -- not even the AP. And getting the list of available SSIDs is hit or miss - mostly miss with having to wait minutes before any of "my" SSIDs shows up on the list again. & for the heck of it, I've booted up a live image of Mint; it's the same deal as Ubuntu, wifi just works. So getting this realtek card to work correctly all the time is a solved problem. At least in ubuntu/mint, so what magic do I need to get it working in Debian??? > perhaps a whole kernel would be better. What's the difference between linux-image-[version #]-amd64 and a whole kernel? > Much of the rest of the > thread seems to be about working out how to use Debian's tools > for finding and installing packages. yes - there is much puzzlement on my part why a seemingly simple "find the latest software offered" task is turning out to be a non-trivial task. Horrors.. I can't just point-n-click my way thru the [synaptics] GUI, I need to actually read and understand the documentation. ... and what has me thinking there's a bug lurking there somewhere is me installing something from backports back in Debian 9. _without_ having to read anything other that what to put in the /etc/apt/sources.list to say where the backports repository is and everything Just Working. Lee
