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lizbeth

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[EN] Ran the new Live CD XFCE but no Wifi
« on: 2012/11/03, 01:55:44 »
I was willing to try the install of siduction but then I realized the wifi wasn't working.  I have a Toshiba Satellite L755D-S5104. It has an atheros wifi card and I know from running lmde that it is generally supported on debain - or i would think it is as lmde is based on debian testing.  So I would think siduction, being based on debian sid would support it too but it didn't seem to recognize it.  I know no linux distorbution will recognize my atheros bluetooth but wifi should be a different story.  Any thoughts/ideas?

arno911

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Ran the new Live CD XFCE but no Wifi
« Reply #1 on: 2012/11/03, 09:05:55 »
afaik LMDE comes with some non-free stuff preinstalled, in Debian and siduction you would have to enable non-free in the sources.lists.
If your wifi is one that needs non-free firmware, you have to use (wired) ethernet to enable and install the needed package(s) once, the installer offers to add non-free for you.
I don't know your model, so I can't say if you just need some non-free firmware or if your chip isn't supported at all, but I am pretty sure it is, if it can be used with LMDE.

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Ran the new Live CD XFCE but no Wifi
« Reply #2 on: 2012/11/03, 11:25:51 »
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It has an atheros wifi card ...

We need the exact model number, so please do:
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lspci -nn | grep -i atheros
You might as well come to our irc rooms and we will sort this out real quick. Fixing wifi on the forum can be cumbersome.

greetz
devil

lizbeth

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RE: Ran the new Live CD XFCE but no Wifi
« Reply #3 on: 2012/11/03, 14:43:50 »
01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8152 v2.0 Fast Ethernet [1969:2062] (rev c1)

i don't see a link anywhere to an irc chat room...

lizbeth

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RE: Ran the new Live CD XFCE but no Wifi
« Reply #4 on: 2012/11/03, 15:50:23 »
02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (rev 01)


My mistake on the wifi... i just ran the lspci and got realtek, sorry

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RE: Ran the new Live CD XFCE but no Wifi
« Reply #5 on: 2012/11/03, 15:57:00 »
You propably need firmware-realtek.
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i don't see a link anywhere to an irc chat room...

on your desktop is a icon siduction-irc.
Ich gehe nicht zum Karneval, ich verleihe nur manchmal mein Gesicht.

lizbeth

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RE: Ran the new Live CD XFCE but no Wifi
« Reply #6 on: 2012/11/03, 16:58:59 »
oh, that's the problem, i'm not in siduction atm...