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Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was: Unidentified subject!]

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On Donnerstag, 29. September 2016 10:09:45 PYT Dan Purgert wrote:
> <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 03:30:04PM -0700, holtzm@cox.net wrote:
> >> Clean install of deb8 (jessie)on my Thinkpad T4220i laptop. went well
> >> except for the fact that the network configuration
> >> with DCP failed.
> > 
> > This is probably DHCP. That means that the laptop tries to ask in
> > the local network for an IP address and gets assigned one by the
> > (local) DHCP server, which these days typically is the internet
> > router.
> 
> It could be as simple as the laptop requires non-free drivers (e.g.
> Intel), which were not installed as part of the Debian setup process.
> I had that issues with Wheezy and an Intel 7260 WLAN card.

In that case get yourself an install-medium from this place
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/

Cheers
Eike

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Unidentified subject! <holtzm@cox.net> - 2016-09-29 00:50 +0200
  DHCP failure (was Re: Unidentified subject!) Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2016-09-29 01:20 +0200
    Re: DHCP failure (was Re: Unidentified subject!) Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> - 2016-09-29 12:10 +0200
  Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was: Unidentified  subject!] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-09-29 11:40 +0200
    Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was:  Unidentified  subject!] Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2016-09-29 12:30 +0200
      Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was: Unidentified  subject!] Eike Lantzsch <zp6cge@gmx.net> - 2016-09-29 13:20 +0200
        Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was:  Unidentified  subject!] Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2016-09-29 16:40 +0200
    Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was:  Unidentified subject!] Bob Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net> - 2016-10-24 00:40 +0200
      Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was:  Unidentified subject!] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-10-25 11:20 +0200
        Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was:  Unidentified subject!] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-25 12:00 +0200
          Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was:  Unidentified subject!] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-10-25 12:40 +0200
            Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was:  Unidentified subject!] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-25 13:00 +0200
              Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was:  Unidentified subject!] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-10-25 13:30 +0200
                Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was:  Unidentified subject!] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-25 14:10 +0200
                Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was:  Unidentified subject!] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-10-25 14:40 +0200

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