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Title: Ran the new Live CD XFCE but no Wifi
Post by: lizbeth 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?
Title: Ran the new Live CD XFCE but no Wifi
Post by: arno911 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.
Title: Ran the new Live CD XFCE but no Wifi
Post by: devil 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: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
Title: RE: Ran the new Live CD XFCE but no Wifi
Post by: lizbeth 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...
Title: RE: Ran the new Live CD XFCE but no Wifi
Post by: lizbeth 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
Title: RE: Ran the new Live CD XFCE but no Wifi
Post by: towo on 2012/11/03, 15:57:00
You propably need firmware-realtek.
And btw,
Quotei don't see a link anywhere to an irc chat room...
on your desktop is a icon siduction-irc.
Title: RE: Ran the new Live CD XFCE but no Wifi
Post by: lizbeth on 2012/11/03, 16:58:59
oh, that's the problem, i'm not in siduction atm...