Albretch Mueller wrote: > However, I don't see the wireless card being activated (its LED > blinking) nor do I see the network-manager showing me any connections > and, of course, if I reboot that laptop I will lose those folders.
Copy them to a USB stick? There's nothing system-specific about them; they're just binary blobs. > Is there a way to activate the network card without rebooting? sudo modprobe b43 dmesg should show you the kernel loading the firmware, and then ip l should show a new wireless interface. > Is there such a thing as an "init 2" cheat code in Debian? You can override all of the system startup post-kernel by telling the kernel init=/bin/sh It should mount root read-only and then stop with a shell prompt. mount -o remount,rw / will make it writable Then you can disable any init startups that you want to remove, and run sync and then reboot. -dsr-
