On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 02:30:42PM +0100, Marc Stephan Nkouly wrote: > Sorry for not giving enough details initially. No worries. > My laptop is LENOVO IDEA PAD 300 > INTEL PROCESSOR of 64 Bits with 4 G Ram & 500 HDD > Is true I had installed UBUNTU 18.04 But didn't appreciate it's sluginesh > Ànd now am running DEBIAN 9 with GNOME 3 Desktop environment. > Is true while doing the installation I saw a warning message that my > Wireless card require a non free driver with bthe name " iw l wifi-3160-17 " Thanks for the details. I see. This is actually the info needed here (actually the driver is probably called "iwlwifi-3160-17", see below). > But I didn't had the disc with it as the system asked me to insert it. > I have done my installation using NET INSTALL and got all the packages from > the Wired connection. Asking "apt-file" (this is a very useful command, which is found in a package with the same name): tomas@trotzki:~$ apt-file search iwlwifi-3160 firmware-iwlwifi: /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3160-12.ucode firmware-iwlwifi: /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3160-14.ucode firmware-iwlwifi: /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3160-16.ucode firmware-iwlwifi: /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3160-17.ucode firmware-iwlwifi: /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3160-9.ucode (Apt-file searches for packages containing a file with that name) reveals that iwlwifi-3160-17.ucode is contained in a package named "firmware-iwlwifi" (the suffix .ucode suggests that those are "microcode files", i.e. firmware to be loaded onto the processor embedded in your wifi hardware. So installing the package "firmware-iwlwifi" should get you going. Note that the package itself is in the non-free repository (hardware vendors sometimes distribute non-free software and don't document their hardware in a way that would allow us to write software for it, alas). So possibly you would have to enable the non-free repository. Don't hesitate to ask if you are unsure. > I also admit that am a beginners and don't feel comfortable enough to edit > files using the command line. Nevertheless am here because I want to learn. > Am also attaching what I had snap during the installation. Don't worry. We all have things to learn -- actually that is part of the fun. Cheers -- tomás
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