Re: Laptop Wireless issues

2017-09-14 Thread Cody Jackson
Thanks so much! Turns out I had nothing in the apt sources file. How embarrassing. I did what you said and used this site: https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList I also did apt-get install firmware-realtek. Once I had done apt-get update && apt-get upgrade, everything worked out fine. Now I have

Re: Laptop Wireless issues

2017-09-14 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 10:47:36AM -0500, David Wright wrote: On Wed 13 Sep 2017 at 15:12:41 (-0400), Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: On 9/13/17, Sven Joachim wrote: > > If you already have installed Debian on your laptop, simply get the > firmware-realtek package[3] from non-free (either using a wired

Re: Laptop Wireless issues

2017-09-14 Thread David Wright
On Wed 13 Sep 2017 at 15:12:41 (-0400), Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 9/13/17, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > > If you already have installed Debian on your laptop, simply get the > > firmware-realtek package[3] from non-free (either using a wired > > connection, or via another computer and sneakernet).

Re: Laptop Wireless issues

2017-09-13 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 9/13/17, Sven Joachim wrote: > > If you already have installed Debian on your laptop, simply get the > firmware-realtek package[3] from non-free (either using a wired > connection, or via another computer and sneakernet). You can install it > with dpkg: > > # dpkg -i firmware-realtek_20161130-

Re: Laptop Wireless issues

2017-09-13 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2017-09-13 14:40 -0400, Henning Follmann wrote: > On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 11:58:01AM -0600, Cody Jackson wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm a new linux user. I've used Debian on Virtualbox but recently decided >> to make the move to a dedicated Debian system. I recently purchased an Asus >> X541-UA-RH71

Re: Laptop Wireless issues

2017-09-13 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2017-09-13 11:58 -0600, Cody Jackson wrote: > I'm a new linux user. I've used Debian on Virtualbox but recently decided > to make the move to a dedicated Debian system. I recently purchased an Asus > X541-UA-RH71 to install Debian on. I ran into some issues with the wifi > setup. > > When I was

Re: Laptop Wireless issues

2017-09-13 Thread Henning Follmann
On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 11:58:01AM -0600, Cody Jackson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a new linux user. I've used Debian on Virtualbox but recently decided > to make the move to a dedicated Debian system. I recently purchased an Asus > X541-UA-RH71 to install Debian on. I ran into some issues with the wifi

Laptop Wireless issues

2017-09-13 Thread Cody Jackson
Hi, I'm a new linux user. I've used Debian on Virtualbox but recently decided to make the move to a dedicated Debian system. I recently purchased an Asus X541-UA-RH71 to install Debian on. I ran into some issues with the wifi setup. When I was installing it said that the firmware for rtlwifi/rtl8