On Sat, 08 Mar 2014 15:18:17 -0500 Patrick Alouidor <aloui...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all. I'm not sure if it me but I have a fresh install of Debian > 7 on laptop Toshiba C-55A5310. and For some reason I cannot enable my > wifi switch. I have been pressing the F keys but no luck. please This > is my first Laptop ever and I wanted to put something stable on it > and now I cannot get my wifi to turn on. My I please get some form of > assistance on wifi. > > > Thank you > > > Patrick Alouidor Hi Patrick, If I were in your shoes, the first thing I'd do is an orderly shutdown, power down for 30 seconds, and power back up. You might get lucky and have Wifi just work when it comes back up. I've seen stranger things happen. Then I'd get the latest version of System Rescue CD iso, burn it, boot it on the laptop (you might need to temporarily disable secure boot or do the compatibility bios thing), and see if System Rescue CD sees your Wifi card. Do the same thing for an Xubuntu live DVD. This will tell you whether you're going to have serious problems with Linux in general (if neither of those can give you an operational Wifi, you have wifi hardware that's probably going to be somewhat problematic with Linux itself). If you get one of these two live CDs to work with Wifi, you can run commands to see what driver to use, and what kind of wifi it is, and what transmitter you're connected to, and at what speed and what frequency. Others on this list can give you the exact commands. Armed with this information, it should be much easier to get it to work in Debian. Finally, understand there are different levels of Wifi "working", and you need to get the more basic levels working before you can deal with higher levels. That most basic level is being able to see a list of all the various available Wifi transmitters (access points, whatever they're called). You can do that, as root, with the following command: iwconfig scanning | less If you see no transmitters, either there's no wifi to receive, or your hardware plus driver is failing to act as a receiver. I feel your pain. You buy a laptop and hope its wifi works with Linux. I've spent lots and lots of time getting Linux laptops to work. Usually you can get a Linux compatable USB wifi dongle to work with Linux, but those things have tiny antennas and tend to go bad quickly. Sometimes you can get a travel router with the proper modes, have *that* receive wifi independent of operating system, and then just plug the travel router into your Ethernet port. A long time ago I wrote some detailed content about getting wifi to work with Linux. It's out of date and I'm sure it has some inaccuracies, but it might help you to read it: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/wifitricks/travelrouter.htm http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/201205/201205.htm#_Get_Wifi_to_Work http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/200612/200612.htm HTH, SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140308162725.4cbe1558@mydesk
