[EN] no wireless from live cd

[viniosity]

I downloaded the xorg live cd and ran Ceni but don't see any hardware interfaces at all so it appears I can't connect to a network. I'm on a Dell XPS 13 which I believe uses the iwlwifi module. It doesn't look like it's included unfortuantely.. or at least I can't modprobe it. Is there a workaround or something I'm missing?

[devil]

siduction follows Debian, when it comes to DFSG. So we only ship free software. You will have to download your needed driver on a usb-stick and install it in the live-cd. The other option is to connect a wire for installation.


greetz
devil

[viniosity]

Sorry to ask such a newbie question, but once I've found the driver, is there a folder on the live usb disk I can copy it to? Or do I have to use a separate usb disk?

[towo]

You don't need a special driver, you need firmware-iwlwifi from non-free.

[devil]

and you need to install that with

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dpkg -i firmware....You can find the package here for download

greetz
devil

[viniosity]

I finally got another usb drive to load the firmware on. Booted from the live usb and installed the firmware using dpkg -i (as root). Ran Ceni afterwards and still am not seeing any hardware interfaces available. Do I need to run a command after installing the firmware? Else manually create a new interface?

[der_bud]

... Do I need to run a command ...

Yes, the command would have been

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apt-get update && apt-get install firmware-iwlwifi after adding 'contrib non-free' to your debian sources list, as towo pointed out above.

[absolut]

if i remember correctly, there is network-manager active on live cd.

i suppose, after installing the required firmware, you might need to restart network-manager? can anyone confirm this?

[towo]

After installing the firmware it is nessesary to reload the kernelmodule!
so do a

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rmmod iwlwifi && modprobe iwlwifi

[viniosity]

After installing the firmware it is nessesary to reload the kernelmodule!
so do a

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rmmod iwlwifi && modprobe iwlwifi

Worked perfectly, thank you!