Re: help trouble shooting

2015-08-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 13 August 2015 19:11:29 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > Note that if you change the subject line, you start a new thread.  And > every request should be made to the list, so that others can benefit. No!! That is the habit of Google. It is a new "conversation", not a new thread. It is

Re: help trouble shooting

2015-08-14 Thread Ralph Katz
On 08/13/2015 03:01 PM, John Olson wrote: > Here's the information on the cpu couldn't find # for wireless device > [snipped quote of prior messages] John -- We can't help without more info. There are experts on this list who could help with more info from you. (I am just a debian user like you.

Re: help trouble shooting

2015-08-13 Thread rlharris
On Thu, August 13, 2015 5:39 pm, Bob Holtzman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 01:11:29PM -0500, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: ... > No. If you change the subject line you do *not* start a new thread. You > hijack the existing one. Posting a new message is the only way to start a > new thread. Thank

Re: help trouble shooting

2015-08-13 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 01:11:29PM -0500, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > Note that if you change the subject line, you start a new thread. And > every request should be made to the list, so that others can benefit. No. If you change the subject line you do *not* start a new thread. You hijack the e

Re: help trouble shooting

2015-08-13 Thread rlharris
On Thu, August 13, 2015 1:55 pm, doug wrote: > Yes, that could be important. For instance, on this Dell laptop, there > is a button that must be pushed to enable wi-fi. If you don't push it, no > tickee, no shirtee! (It says "wifi" on it in microscopic letters.) On Lenovo laptops, the button is a

Re: help trouble shooting

2015-08-13 Thread John Olson
Here's the information on the cpu couldn't find # for wireless device On Aug 13, 2015 1:55 PM, "doug" wrote: > > On 08/13/2015 02:25 PM, Joe wrote: > >> On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 12:17:43 -0500 >> John Olson wrote: >> >> Good afternoon, My name is John and I have ran into an issues when >>> installing

Re: help trouble shooting

2015-08-13 Thread doug
On 08/13/2015 02:25 PM, Joe wrote: On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 12:17:43 -0500 John Olson wrote: Good afternoon, My name is John and I have ran into an issues when installing DEBIAN 8.1.0 (Jessie). I have tried downloading and installing the firmware pkgs that it shows were not installed during initi

Re: help trouble shooting

2015-08-13 Thread Joe
On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 12:17:43 -0500 John Olson wrote: > Good afternoon, My name is John and I have ran into an issues when > installing DEBIAN 8.1.0 (Jessie). I have tried downloading and > installing the firmware pkgs that it shows were not installed during > initial install. I am new to Debian

Re: help trouble shooting

2015-08-13 Thread rlharris
Note that if you change the subject line, you start a new thread. And every request should be made to the list, so that others can benefit. As I said: > On my Jessie installation, there is a Network Manager Applet which has > been adequate for my needs. The network manager was installed by defau

Re: help trouble shooting

2015-08-13 Thread Gerard ROBIN
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 12:17:43PM -0500, John Olson wrote: > Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 12:17:43 -0500 > From: John Olson > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: help trouble shooting > says I need to install firmware for: *rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin* and also > *rtl_nic/

Re: help trouble shooting

2015-08-13 Thread rlharris
On Thu, August 13, 2015 12:17 pm, John Olson wrote: > Good afternoon, My name is John and I have ran into an issues when > installing DEBIAN 8.1.0 (Jessie). The first thing you need to do is configure your mail package to send "plain text" only; HTML is irritating; it has no place on a technical

help trouble shooting

2015-08-13 Thread John Olson
Good afternoon, My name is John and I have ran into an issues when installing DEBIAN 8.1.0 (Jessie). I have tried downloading and installing the firmware pkgs that it shows were not installed during initial install. I am new to Debian and I am trying to correct these following issues. says I need