Greetings Just to confirm my wifi card is now working I have search for the package "firmware-iwlwifi" using the browser and found the page https://wiki.debian.org/iwlwifi from there I had just followed the instructions. I also admit that I made use of the text editor "nano" to edit the list source. As much as am usually afraid of the CLI I start enjoying it. Are they any resources anyone can share for me to learn more about it and most of all harness its power?
Thanks Marc Stephan Nkouly Digital Consultant bp: 5180 Nkwen Bamenda Cameroon Mobile: 00 237 6 77 95 77 55 00 237 6 90 89 51 52 "Technical people tend to fall into two categories: Specialists and Generalists. The Specialist learns more and more about a narrower and narrower field, until he eventually, in the limit, knows everything about nothing. The Generalist learns less and less about a wider and wider field until eventually, he knows nothing about everything." - William Stucke - AfrISPA On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 3:14 PM <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 02:30:42PM +0100, Marc Stephan Nkouly wrote: > > Sorry for not giving enough details initially. > > No worries. > > > My laptop is LENOVO IDEA PAD 300 > > INTEL PROCESSOR of 64 Bits with 4 G Ram & 500 HDD > > Is true I had installed UBUNTU 18.04 But didn't appreciate it's sluginesh > > Ànd now am running DEBIAN 9 with GNOME 3 Desktop environment. > > Is true while doing the installation I saw a warning message that my > > Wireless card require a non free driver with bthe name " iw l > wifi-3160-17 " > > Thanks for the details. > > I see. This is actually the info needed here (actually the driver is > probably > called "iwlwifi-3160-17", see below). > > > But I didn't had the disc with it as the system asked me to insert it. > > I have done my installation using NET INSTALL and got all the packages > from > > the Wired connection. > > Asking "apt-file" (this is a very useful command, which is found in a > package with the same name): > > tomas@trotzki:~$ apt-file search iwlwifi-3160 > firmware-iwlwifi: /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3160-12.ucode > firmware-iwlwifi: /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3160-14.ucode > firmware-iwlwifi: /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3160-16.ucode > firmware-iwlwifi: /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3160-17.ucode > firmware-iwlwifi: /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3160-9.ucode > > (Apt-file searches for packages containing a file with that name) reveals > that iwlwifi-3160-17.ucode is contained in a package named > "firmware-iwlwifi" > (the suffix .ucode suggests that those are "microcode files", i.e. firmware > to be loaded onto the processor embedded in your wifi hardware. > > So installing the package "firmware-iwlwifi" should get you going. > > Note that the package itself is in the non-free repository (hardware > vendors > sometimes distribute non-free software and don't document their hardware > in a way that would allow us to write software for it, alas). So possibly > you would have to enable the non-free repository. Don't hesitate to ask > if you are unsure. > > > I also admit that am a beginners and don't feel comfortable enough to > edit > > files using the command line. Nevertheless am here because I want to > learn. > > Am also attaching what I had snap during the installation. > > Don't worry. We all have things to learn -- actually that is part of the > fun. > > Cheers > -- tomás >
