Re: Dell Inspiron 17 3000 Series 3785 problem with X

2019-08-14 Thread ernst doubt
On Wed, 2019-08-14 at 13:11 -0400, Moshe Piekarski wrote: > On 8/14/19 1:06 PM, ernst doubt wrote: > > Thank you for the response Moshe. i was able to succeed this > > morning > > (using the ip command to get online via ethernet in recovery mode). > Glad to know you got it working. > > After manual

Re: Dell Inspiron 17 3000 Series 3785 problem with X

2019-08-14 Thread Moshe Piekarski
On 8/14/19 1:06 PM, ernst doubt wrote: > Thank you for the response Moshe. i was able to succeed this morning > (using the ip command to get online via ethernet in recovery mode). Glad to know you got it working. > After manually configuring my networking, i'm pretty sure the package > that solved

Re: Dell Inspiron 17 3000 Series 3785 problem with X

2019-08-14 Thread ernst doubt
Thank you for the response Moshe. i was able to succeed this morning (using the ip command to get online via ethernet in recovery mode). After manually configuring my networking, i'm pretty sure the package that solved my issue (for the benefit of anyone else stumbling across this) was linux-firmwa

Re: Dell Inspiron 17 3000 Series 3785 problem with X

2019-08-14 Thread Moshe Piekarski
On 8/14/19 2:51 AM, Ernst Doubt wrote: > > Greetings, > > i've been an avid debian user for more than 2 decades at this point > and just > > bought myself my first laptop. It and buster are new enough that a > quick web > > search didn't show me much. Apologies if questions of this sort have been

Dell Inspiron 17 3000 Series 3785 problem with X

2019-08-13 Thread Ernst Doubt
Greetings, i've been an avid debian user for more than 2 decades at this point and just bought myself my first laptop. It and buster are new enough that a quick web search didn't show me much. Apologies if questions of this sort have been asked before (i subscribed myself to the list instead o