Am Mon, Dec 23, 2024 at 06:45:43PM -0500 schrieb Philip Webb: > I no longer have a landline available (even via friends) > & rely on Wifi for I/net service, incl software downloads. > > I've been a happy Gentoo user since 2003, > but want to be able to use Wifi with my 15 yr-old netbook (32-bit), > which has always had Gentoo installed & whose hardware incl's Wifi. > This presents a Catch-22 : how can I install Wifi software ? > -- I need the I/net to download the files, > but can't access the I/net without that software installed. > > Is there any way around it ? -- eg could I download files on my desktop, > then transfer them to the netbook & get that system to use them ? > > Can anyone offer suggestions ?
That’s not really a Gentoo-specific problem, right? When I had lousy Internet, I did my usual emerge command, but with --fetchonly -pv. That way, emerge prints out what it would like to download, i.e. the actual concrete URLs with versions and mirrors filled in. I put the output into a textfile on a USB drive and carried it to a connected machine, where I would run wget --input-file on said drive. I’d been keeping a small, old copy of wget for Windows around for exactly that purpse. -- Grüße | Greetings | Salut | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me on any social network. I can resist everything, except temptation.
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