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No internet after installing on a laptop

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No internet after installing on a laptop

#1 Post by turnabout »

I just finished installing Debian on an old laptop I got. During the installation, it prompted for some .ucode files, which I transfered on a USB drive and plugged in my laptop. Everything went alright during the installation.

Now that it's installed, I don't have access to the internet. I can't install packages, can't ping anything including my router, etc. I'm not sure what it is I'm missing. I don't know if it's important but I also didn't select a Desktop Environment during the installation (I just want a WM).

I looked around a bit and found perhaps I need a network manager? But if I enter

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service network-manager start
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Failed to start network-manager.service: Unit network-manager.service not found.
I looked to download the package from my desktop and manually transfer it to my laptop via USB, but the package also has a bunch of dependencies, some of which have a bunch of dependencies... so I'm not sure what to do.

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Re: No internet after installing on a laptop

#2 Post by dilberts_left_nut »

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Re: No internet after installing on a laptop

#3 Post by bw123 »

Take your time, this is good too.

https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debi ... own_legacy

Should be a lot of threads on here, search for 'minimal install' or something like that.
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Re: No internet after installing on a laptop

#4 Post by p.H »

NetworkManager is optional and installed by default only if you install some desktop environments which depend on it.

Do you use a wireless or ethernet connection to the router ?
Can you post the output of the following commands :

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lspci
cat /etc/network/interfaces
cat /etc/network/interfaces.d/*
cat /etc/resolv.conf
ip addr
ip route

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Re: No internet after installing on a laptop

#5 Post by None1975 »

Hello. Try (as root)

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#systemctl stop dhcpcd
#systemctl start dhcpcd
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Re: No internet after installing on a laptop

#6 Post by Wheelerof4te »

turnabout wrote:During the installation, it prompted for some .ucode files,
Kinda important for which files it prompted, but I'm going by a wild guess and I say Wi-Fi non-free firmware.
We will have to see the output of lspci p.H asked for first.
If you have LAN cable, plug it in (maybe take it from the desktop) and install the correstonding firmware.
Since you got no DE, network config will have to be managed though CLI. There are some tools for that, google around. Or just config everything with LAN and get your Wi-Fi set after.

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