Debian Installation :: Lost NIC After Install
Sep 17, 2014
I've just installed Debian 7 Netinst on an old laptop. It's using one of those PCMCIA(?) wireless NIC card things. It recognised it during the install, asked me for some driver files which it found on my mobile phone when I connected it to the laptop's USB Went through the whole install process without any problems and the only changes to default I made was to deselect "Debian Desktop..." and selected "SSH Server". Rebooted, get a command prompt and login OK .... but it's not picked up the network thingy. Twice I've done this. Why is it losing the networking...
There is a glitch in my install. It doesn't find the NIC first time so I click "Back" and it takes me to the installer menu. There I choose "Detect Network Hardware" and OK. It finds the card, installs the drivers from my phone and prompts me for the WAP's SSID. I select "Back" again, choose "Detect Network Hardware" again and it goes OK and finds 3 WAPs in range. All goes well after that. I don't see how that can mess it up though I'm going to do it all again but this time select the "Debian Desktop" option and let you know if that changes things.
I'm having to be careful with the partitioner ... If I allowed it to install to the "Largest contiguous..." it would end up on my mobile phone as the laptop has a 10Gb drive and the phone 32Gb .
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Idon't know what else to do. This is the link to where I downloaded the software ( [URL] ). The others five that i downloaded were on the same page that I got this one. Are there bad files here? Is there a missing file in the disc?
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As per a google seacrh, i installed pulse audio. This showed me that the the 'levels' were moving in line with the sounds which should have been playing, but no amount of tweaking managed to get the sound to come out. I have Mint installed on the same machine and the sound works fine here so i know for sure it is not a hardware issue.
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Desktop lost (Cinnamon 2.2.16 for me) after a recent dist-upgrade in Sid. I'm new to Sid, so is this normal?
Here's what happened:
Code: Select allsudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Code: Select allCalculating upgrade... The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
x11-apps x11-session-utils xinit
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
Done
[Code] ....
I also have run
Code: Select allsudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get install task-cinnamon-desktop
but it says something to the effect that task-cinnamon-desktop has been moved out of incoming, and that it's unable to install since I have held broken packages.
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After installing debian 5.0.4 basic from first dvd, I extracted all other dvd images to hard disk and pointed /etc/apt/sources.list point to all these directories.
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It went on for nearly two days to install everything. (in between due to power failure, something was done half way and was able to login to KDE boot option and see lots of software installed.)
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Is there a way to install all softwares + all XWindow systems simultaneously?
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2.Host Win 7 Ultimate 7600:
configure the local connection to "internet connection share",choose "VMware Network Adapter VMnet1"
Guest Debian 5.0.3: NAT + DHCP
3. Configurate /etc/apt/source.lists
Add these lines on /etc/apt/sources.list:
[Code]...
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I installed a package (kicad) on my wheezy system using apt-get and it pulled down a shedload more files than I expected.When I restarted the system it turns out I've also been upgraded to
Release 8.0 Jessie
Kernel Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64
GNOME 3.4.2
However I don't have gnome any more. Only XFCE.I tried
Code: Select allroot@client:~# apt-get install gnome
Reading package lists... Done.Building dependency tree.Reading state information... Done.Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
gnome : Depends: gnome-core (= 1:3.14+3) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: evolution (>= 3.12) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: evolution-plugins (>= 3.12) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: gnome-shell-extension-weather but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: gnome-software but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
My /etc/apt/sources.list is
Code: Select all#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.7.0 _Wheezy_ - Official amd64 NETINST Binary-1 20141018-13:04]/ wheezy main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.7.0 _Wheezy_ - Official amd64 NETINST Binary-1 20141018-13:04]/ wheezy main
deb http://mirror.waia.asn.au/debian/ wheezy main
deb-src http://mirror.waia.asn.au/debian/ wheezy main
[code]....
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I have password access to the LUKS volume and can easily open it at the LIVE disk prompt to do so. My new flash drive is wiped and EXT2 formatted and should be ready to go. I have RAM based backup software for doing sector backups of the LUKS partition/volume. Doing a full restore at any point will be a piece of cake. I have lots of family around and the thought of a missing bootloader flash drive, while not likely, is not out of question.
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This only affects printing, for Simple Scan can always communicate with the printers without problems.
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Because the only variable that changed is the router, there has to be something there messing with my Cups or Avahi configuration.
Note that the new router had a "vanilla" installation, where no advanced settings were touched. All connected devices (computers, mobile phones, printers, etc.) are given new IP address through DHCP every day.
Where should I start? I have already deleted and added the printers within Cups several times during the week, and the problem persists. Is the router renewing the address more often than the old one did? Can this "refresh" be delayed? Should Avahi monitor devices more often?
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