Re: Laptop Wireless issues
On Wed 13 Sep 2017 at 15:12:41 (-0400), Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
> On 9/13/17, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> > If you already have installed Debian on your laptop, simply get the
> > firmware-realtek package[3] from non-free (either using a wired
> > connection, or via another computer and sneakernet). You can install it
> > with dpkg:
> >
> > # dpkg -i firmware-realtek_20161130-3_all.deb
>
> > 3. https://packages.debian.org/stretch/firmware-realtek
>
>
> Something that's not always clear (for newbies) is that you have to
> issue that "dpkg -i" command from within the directory containing the
> target .deb file after it's downloaded. That directory can be almost
> anywhere (if not actually anywhere), but the command has to be issued
> from wherever that .deb landed in the file hierarchy.
It's not at all clear to me either. What has the current working
directory to do with the behaviour of dpkg, and where have you seen
documentation for this statement?
Cheers,
David.
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