On 16/03/18 18:38, solitone wrote:
Just installed scratch with xfce4 on an oldish machine, downloading all the needed packages through my wifi adapter. On first boot wifi is down, and there is no application I can use to choose and connect to my wifi access point. I realize that xfce's own Airconfig has never lifted off and is currently unreleased, abandoned and unmaintained, so xfce users usually use NetworkManager or Wicd. I would suggest that any of these is installed by default when xfce is chosen during installation.
Did you upgrade or was this a fresh install?task-xfce-desktop recommends network-manager-gnome (and thus network-manager) on sid and stretch:
https://packages.debian.org/sid/task-xfce-desktop Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand