Re: USB wireless dongle not detected
On 2019-07-18, Richard Hobson <hobsonrj@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
I guess now you gotta use 'su -' when switching to root (as of Buster),
otherwise, trouble ensues.
> then a note about what root's path should usually contain
> /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin
>
> It'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.
>
> R
>
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