Curt wrote:
Of course, if you have no network connectivity on the machine, this might prove to be a difficult maneuver. However, you could download the package from another machine with connectivity and transfer it via sneakernet to the machine with the realtek wifi dongle, where it might be installed like this (as root or with sudo): dpkg -i firmware-realtek_20190502-1_all.deb
Thanks for the link. I've downloaded the package, transferred it to the PC using a USB stick and run dpkg as above.
I get two warnings followed by a related error. warning: 'ldconfig' not found in PATH or not executable warning: 'start-stop-daemon' not found in PATH or not executable error: 2 expected programs not found in PATH or not executable then a note about what root's path should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbinIt's about ten years since I last used Linux and I can't even remember how to check the PATH! However, I doubt there's anything wrong with it in a new installation.
Does it matter where I've put the .deb file? At the moment it's in the Downloads directory of my userbname and I'm runnng dpkg from there as root.
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