Re: USB wireless dongle not detected
On Thursday 18 July 2019 12:28:18 Richard Hobson 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
>
> 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
echo $PATH. And expect it to be different between yourself and sudo
whoever.
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