Did clean install of Talking Debian, No Internet.

[Linux for blind general discussion]

as root, please run nmtui and activate the connection of your choice.
Before doing that, please examine /etc/resolv.conf to see if
network-manager was used to do your network setup so far as it was done.
 If yes, nmtui should be on your machine.  You use the up and down
arrows and enter to make selections in nmtui.  Once you activate the
connection quit nmtui and then run a ping test for your network.  I
think ping -a -c 5 www.google.com should get you unknown connection or
about five lines with packet information on them.  In the latter case,
you have a working network connection.  I hope this helps, this stuff
got covered over on debian-user a little while ago.

On Fri, 14 Sep 2018, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 17:27:33
> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Did clean install of Talking Debian, No Internet.
>
> Okay, so I recently torrented and burned the amd64 version of Debian
> 9.5 CD1 and used the talking installer to install it to my backup
> machine. The network setup step asked for some firmware files that I
> have no idea how to obtain or make accessible to the installer, so I
> skip loading the firmware, but setting up my Wi-Fi connection for use
> by the installer went through with no error messages, and the install
> finished successfully, I rebooted, and I have a working Debian system
> that comes up talking, gives me a text log-in and dumps me at the
> console upon login.
>
> Apparently, Debian doesn't consider sudo or aptitude basic system
> utilities, but I thought, no problem, I'll use su to switch to a root
> console and use apt to install them.
>
> Here's where I ran into trouble. Both apt update and apt install can't
> connect. Some digging reveals that the installer neither put my
> ethernet or wi-fi connections in my /etc/network/interfaces file.
> Tried copying over copies of my interfaces and wpa_supplicant.conf
> that were working to let the tower in question connect either wired or
> wirelessly under the install of Knoppix 8.1 that was on the machine
> prior to installing Debian 9.5, but to no avail.
>
> So, any suggestions on how to get my talking debian machine connected
> to the internet so I can start installing stuff not installed by the
> installer?
>
>

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