Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 02:53:37PM -0500, Mark Filipak wrote:
> My objective:
> Install WiFi driver into Debian+LXDE so that I can connect to the Internet.
To be more exact, the wifi driver is installed so the kernel can talk to
the wireless hardware. IOW, the procedure is the same whether you have
Gnome, XFCE, LXDE, KDE or even no X environment at all.
> My problem:
> All the help I can find covers installing packages over the Internet.
First step:
Determine the chipset of your wireless card, then you'll be able to
determine the driver necessary so the kernel can "talk" to that chipset.
There are various ways, but the usual way which I use is the lspci
command:
e.g.
lspci -k
Please don't post the whole output, obviously information about your
graphics chipset, or your northbridge chipset, is not relevant to this
issue.
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