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Re: How to manually install WiFi firmware on Debian Live?



El vie, 12 mar 2021 a las 10:22, Brian (<ad44@cityscape.co.uk>) escribió:
>
> On Fri 12 Mar 2021 at 14:04:14 +0000, Brian wrote:
>
> > On Thu 11 Mar 2021 at 20:38:04 -0400, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote:
> >
> > > 4-. Executed: sudo apt install firmware-realtek
> >
> > I think that is incorrect. If you are in the same directory as
> > firmware-realtek, I'd do 'sudo apt install ./firmware-realtek'.
>
> Correction:
>
> sudo apt install ./firmware-realtek_20190114-2_all.deb

Yes, thanks for noting it.  This is what I wrote here:

El vie, 12 mar 2021 a las 9:00, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
(<santiagopinth@gmail.com>) escribió:
> Here are some corrections, I did not really run these commands that way.
>
> 2021-03-11 20:38 GMT-04:00, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z <santiagopinth@gmail.com>:
> > 4-. Executed: sudo apt install firmware-realtek
>
> sudo apt install <path-to-firmware-realtek>

<path-to-firmware-realtek> is
/home/user/Desktop/firmware-realtek_20190114-2_all.deb

El vie, 12 mar 2021 a las 10:04, Brian (<ad44@cityscape.co.uk>) escribió:
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> On Thu 11 Mar 2021 at 20:38:04 -0400, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote:
> > I tried to make a "Realtek RTL8191SU Wireless LAN 802.11n USB 2.0
> > Network Adapter" work on Debian 10 Live with LXDE, but I couldn't.
> > Here is what I already have tried:
> >
> > 1-. Downloaded package firmware-realtek from package.debian.org.
>
> Ok. May also be done with 'apt download firmware-realtek'.

That would work if I already had Debian with internet connection.
I can't use apt for anything because I don't have WiFi connection.

El vie, 12 mar 2021 a las 10:04, Brian (<ad44@cityscape.co.uk>) escribió:
> 'ip a' should show all available interfaces.

Ok, I'll try that.


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