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no wifi connection

#1 Post by smj41 »

I just installed debian9 on my laptop, but when I check for my wifi there is no tab, how do I install my wifi , it is on a Dell laptop

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Re: no wifi connection

#2 Post by FreewheelinFrank »

Run

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# dmesg
in a terminal and look for error messages about the wifi card in red: you need to install the firmware at a guess.

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Re: no wifi connection

#3 Post by dilberts_left_nut »

AdrianTM wrote:There's no hacker in my grandma...

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#4 Post by smj41 »

Freewheeling Frank, I rang the command you listed and got following that was all in "red", but I must admit I am not sure of what I need to do to repair the problem?

"cant't request region for resource [mem 0x9d89a000-0x9d89afff]
I/O address 0xcd6 already in use
[drm:radeon_pci_probe [radeon]] *E
RROR* radeon kernel modesetting for R600 or later requires firmware-amd-graphics.
firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-3160-17.ucode (-2)
firmware: failed to load intel/ibt-hw-37.7.10-fw-1.0.1.2d.d.seq (-2)
hci0 failed to open Intel firmware file: intel/ibit-hw-37.7.10-fw-1.0.1.2d.d.bseq (-2)
firmware: failed to load intel/ibt-hw-37/7.bseq (-2)
hci0 failed to open default Intel fw file: intel/ibt-hw-37.7.bseq
firmware: failed to laod rtl_nic/rt18106-1.fw (-2)

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#5 Post by arochester »

Have you installed the firmware (driver)?

Have you rebooted?

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Re: no wifi connection

#6 Post by smj41 »

aochester: hate to be such a dummy but not sure of how to install the firmware driver as you asked.......I am not that knowledgeable about Linux systems.....sorry....

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Re: no wifi connection

#7 Post by Wheelerof4te »

But can you do a google search?
https://wiki.debian.org/iwlwifi
For the editing sources.list part:
https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList

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#8 Post by arochester »

Connect TEMPORARILY by cable.

Issue this command

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sudo apt install firmware-iwlwifi
It will ask for the password, then let it run.

When it has finished, remove the cable and reboot.

Your wifi should be working.

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Re: no wifi connection

#9 Post by stevepusser »

Besides firmware-iwlwifi, note that your AMD graphics card is also complaining about missing firmware--that package is "firmware-amd-graphics". If you can't wrangle a wired connection, you can also download the packages from packages.debian.org on a connected machine/OS, transfer them to the isolated Debian machine, and install them with "dpkg -i <debfile>" as root or with sudo.
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Re: no wifi connection

#10 Post by FreewheelinFrank »

smj41 wrote:Freewheeling Frank, I rang the command you listed and got following that was all in "red", but I must admit I am not sure of what I need to do to repair the problem?

"cant't request region for resource [mem 0x9d89a000-0x9d89afff]
I/O address 0xcd6 already in use
[drm:radeon_pci_probe [radeon]] *E
RROR* radeon kernel modesetting for R600 or later requires firmware-amd-graphics.
firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-3160-17.ucode (-2)
firmware: failed to load intel/ibt-hw-37.7.10-fw-1.0.1.2d.d.seq (-2)
hci0 failed to open Intel firmware file: intel/ibit-hw-37.7.10-fw-1.0.1.2d.d.bseq (-2)
firmware: failed to load intel/ibt-hw-37/7.bseq (-2)
hci0 failed to open default Intel fw file: intel/ibt-hw-37.7.bseq
firmware: failed to laod rtl_nic/rt18106-1.fw (-2)
Well, thar's been answered, but I'll make a few points.

The items in red are error reports.

The first seems to be for a BIOS error, by the way. You may need to update your BIOS- but that's another kettle of fish.

The firmware errors are for missing firmware packages or componemts of those packages. If you search for the error messages you will come up with links to the firmware package.

rtl_nic/rt18106-1.fw for example brings up the realtek package although the listed component doesn't quite match.

"...failed to laod" looks like a typo- did you copy these by hand? Always better to cut' n paste if you can.

From the links provided you will have learnt (I hope) that you need to edit the sorces file to include non-free software before you can install firmware-iwlwifi and firmware-amd-graphics and firmware-realtek.

To help you with that, you can look at a list generator like this one- it will show you what your sources file should look like (You can't leave source

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 unticked.)

https://debgen.xyz/

There are lots of tutorials on the net about how to edit a root file in Debian. Of course some are less clear than others. This seems OK (although it's a rival forum  :oops: )

http://www.debianuserforums.org/viewtopic.php?t=388

You will need to install gksu (or KDE equivalent) if you want to use a graphical interface (from memory).

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Re: no wifi connection

#11 Post by smj41 »

stevepusser; followed your suggestion, up and running, thanks :D
to everyone who gave thoughts and ideas, thank you all very much, it is so great to follow your thoughts, seeing how I am so old and ancient I will most likely being asking more questions, thanks again to all

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