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[solved]How to get wifi working in bookworm on Sys76 Gaz15??

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Re: [solved]How to get wifi working in bookworm on Sys76 Gaz15??

#21 Post by este.el.paz »

mm3100 wrote: 2021-09-05 20:43 You need to run isenkram with root privileges, that is all.
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Thanks for the reply . . . but, nope . . . tried it now 20 times . . . no matter what I try it isn't working . . . ???? It's a command line app, right?? Somehow I got Debian installed in multi-boot machine, and got "non-free" added into sources.list to get wifi driver installed and working, got isenkram installed, but can't get it to do its thing . . .???? Are you in the bookworm edition of the deb show??

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Re: [solved]How to get wifi working in bookworm on Sys76 Gaz15??

#22 Post by mm3100 »

If you have installed isenkram-cli, tool should be under, so check if it is there
/usr/sbin/isenkram-autoinstall-firmware

It should work under Bookworm, if anything would give you error message.

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Re: How to get wifi working in bookworm on Sys76 Gaz15??

#23 Post by este.el.paz »

mm3100 wrote: 2021-09-06 07:16 If you have installed isenkram-cli, tool should be under, so check if it is there
/usr/sbin/isenkram-autoinstall-firmware

It should work under Bookworm, if anything would give you error message.
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I'll check that later on today, but, as mentioned previously, it is indeed showing up in synaptic as "installed." So far operating in noncompliance mode.

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Re: [solved]How to get wifi working in bookworm on Sys76 Gaz15??

#24 Post by este.el.paz »

Back in Debian on the Gaz15 . . . ran a "cat" of that and it showed a long file of data that didn't seem to be clear in meaning. I theen nav'd in the GUI to /usr/sbin . . . and in there is showing an image type file of "isenkram-autoinstall-firmware" as I suspected there would be. Since I have already tried to start this app numerous times I'm not trying it again . . . .

But, as posted previously, running tht command does provide an error, as also posted previously.

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isenkram-autoinstall-firmware
bash: isenkram-autoinstall-firmware: command not found
Right now, as wifi is functioning there isn't much need to get isenkram to work . . . it seems convinced that it doesn't have to . . . Labor Day celebration, perhaps???

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Re: [solved]How to get wifi working in bookworm on Sys76 Gaz15??

#25 Post by mm3100 »

You need to run it as root, if for some reason you can't, check your PATH environmental variable. /sbin should be in roots path.

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Re: [solved]How to get wifi working in bookworm on Sys76 Gaz15??

#26 Post by este.el.paz »

mm3100 wrote: 2021-09-06 20:25 You need to run it as root, if for some reason you can't, check your PATH environmental variable. /sbin should be in roots path.
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That is something completely different . . . never have done or seen that mentioned before. How would I go about doing that??

Also as mentioned previously the only option I have right now in console is root . . . don't have time to figure out how to add myself into sudoers . . . as in just about all of my other distro installs admin is auto-added into sudoers . . . . So, here in Deb I am running root with every use of the console.

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Re: [solved]How to get wifi working in bookworm on Sys76 Gaz15??

#27 Post by 4D696B65 »

este.el.paz wrote: 2021-09-06 20:45 So, here in Deb I am running root with every use of the console.
You are normal user if prompt is $
You su - to become root and prompt changes to #

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#28 Post by mm3100 »

Once you are logged as root, just write
echo $PATH
And copy here what you get.

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Re: [solved]How to get wifi working in bookworm on Sys76 Gaz15??

#29 Post by este.el.paz »

mm3100 wrote: 2021-09-06 21:28 Once you are logged as root, just write
echo $PATH
And copy here what you get.

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# echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
Don't see anything about /sbin in that list but I did navi to it . . . .

PS: As stated numerous times I only have root as the option to run commands . . . . :shock: :roll: :idea:

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Re: [solved]How to get wifi working in bookworm on Sys76 Gaz15??

#30 Post by sunrat »

“ computer users can be divided into 2 categories:
Those who have lost data
...and those who have not lost data YET ”
Remember to BACKUP!

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Re: [solved]How to get wifi working in bookworm on Sys76 Gaz15??

#31 Post by este.el.paz »

sunrat wrote: 2021-09-07 00:18 Read this:
[FAQ] "Command not found" when using su
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OK, thanks for that post, I guess that might explain why isenkram wasn't responding to my traditional "su" entry . . . . I'm with the guy that said, "If it ain't broke, why break it?"

So, in the meanwhile on this holiday weekend I found a post that showed some not exactly correct data on how to add the user into sudoers . . . did that and was able to sudo reboot out of Debian . . . so now I'm in Gecko . . . rolling edition.

I'll check back with Debian and "su -" for a run at isenkram tomorrow . . . just to check it out. If I fire it up, will it again add the "contrib non-free" items into the sources.list????

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Re: [solved]How to get wifi working in bookworm on Sys76 Gaz15??

#32 Post by este.el.paz »

OK, today I used "su -" and that changed the PATH data to "sbin" and then I ran the "isenkram-autoinstall-firmware" command and it showed a bunch of lines of data for "nvidia" related stuff, but concluded with:

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 info: unable to find any local firmware info for dist bookworm, using info for sid
info: locating packages with the requested firmware files
info: determining whether enabling other components is required
info: No new firmware package with requested firmware detected.
I missed the data that using just "su" was showing as "root: root/home" rather than just "root."

Didn't seem like isenkram re-added the non-free data in sources.list

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#33 Post by mm3100 »

You had added non-free manually, it won't be added if you did it.

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Re: [solved]How to get wifi working in bookworm on Sys76 Gaz15??

#34 Post by este.el.paz »

mm3100 wrote: 2021-09-11 08:45 You had added non-free manually, it won't be added if you did it.
Cool. I did check and it appeared to be "OK."

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