Re: Creating my first LAN
On 03/30/2021 10:28 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
Richard,
So: You have two laptops. Both installed from the first DVD. Never connected
to the Internet.
Did you actually manage to install the firmware to make the WiFi cards work?
Yes ;>
One was old enough that the installer had the correct driver.
The driver for the other was available from the repository.
Outwith that firmware, it is very unlikely that anything will work.
[And this goes back to one of the previous email chains].
Justify that claim.
The older unit had no problem connecting to the internet via the local
library's public WiFi portal. [Haven't explicitly tried the other yet.]
If you fire up one of the laptops, and run " dmesg | less " - do you find
references to WiFi hardware (and corresponding firmware being loaded) ?
It doesn't really matter what ad-hoc networking you want to put in place:
absent the firmware, almost all Wifi hardware is a brick. The older (and
significantly slower) WiFi hardware where the firmware is contained in free
drivers is very rare now.
Those two paragraphs do not {so to speak} compute.
For more detail, see my response to David.
All the very best, as ever,
Andy C.
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