On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Henry W. Peters <hwpet...@jamadots.com> wrote: > On 9/19/2013 1:10 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> >> >> Henry, >> I think it would be good if you posted the output of a few commands so >> we could get our bearings: >> >> uname -a >> >> lspci -k >> >> lsmod >> >> My wife's laptop uses wireless. I took a quick look in her kernel >> config and don't find "RALINK" so I'm not sure what driver should be >> enabled. >> >> In terms of doing the install presumably you have a wired Ethernet port >> on this laptop? If so you are likely to do better with that during install. >> I didn't get her ATH9K wireless working until I was running Gentoo. >> >> Good luck, >> Mark > > Thanks Mark, ok, will post soon as I can get to it. > > I should have mentioned that it is not a laptop, but a desktop (& I can, & > have tried ethernet connect, as I said, with no luck, so far). > Regards, > Henry > > Ah, sorry. You did bury in there that it was a desktop. My mistake. I just lept to the laptop conclusion as you are working on wireless. That said I've always had better luck, especially with newer hardware, making sure I start with wired Ethernet if possible.
uname -a will tell us what kernel you have on the install DVD lspci -k will tell us what hardware >From there we can make more educated inputs. I will say that I still keep one old PCI Ethernet adapter around that I know all kernels have support for just in case new hardware isn't recognized. That's helped get through the install phase more than once. Good luck, Mark
