Did clean install of Talking Debian, No Internet.

[Linux for blind general discussion]

There's an issue with Debian mate that don't occur on Debian Lxde for
example, network-manager need a change in the configuration file for old
wireless devices, you could use wicd instead of network-manager and it will
work, a tip use a wireless repeater and wire the computer to it for easier
netinstall, after you will have time to fix wireless issues easily.

Michaël Caron Couturier


Le ven. 14 sept. 2018, à 21 h 10, Linux for blind general discussion <
blinux-list at redhat.com> a écrit :

> 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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