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Re: USB wireless dongle not detected



On Wed, 17 Jul 2019 13:40:57 +0100 (GMT Summer Time)
Richard Hobson <hobsonrj@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've just installed Debian 10 and have no network connectivity. The PC has 
> an Ethernet card but I use a USB dongle (StarTech) for practical reasons. 
> I've previously used this in an installation of OpenSuse on the same machine 
> and although it wasn't detected at install time it was on first boot and I 
> was able to use the graphical configuration tool to set it up, so there is 
> clearly some support in Linux for the device.
> 
> However, in Debian 10 all I can find in the graphical configuration tool is 
> the Ethernet card.
> 
> I'm using the Gnome desktop, although would like to switch to KDE, but 
> that's another question. :-)
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas?

Probably your new install lacks the driver/firmware for it.  Read the
Debian wifi wiki for more details: https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi

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