Re: Laptop Wireless issues

From	Cody Jackson <codyjacks@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Laptop Wireless issues
Date	2017-09-14 23:50 +0200
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Thanks so much!

Turns out I had nothing in the apt sources file. How embarrassing.

I did what you said and used this site: https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList

I also did apt-get install firmware-realtek.

Once I had done apt-get update && apt-get upgrade, everything worked out
fine.

Now I have wifi! Whoot!

Thanks again!

On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 12:40 PM, Henning Follmann <
hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 11:58:01AM -0600, Cody Jackson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm a new linux user. I've used Debian on Virtualbox but recently decided
> > to make the move to a dedicated Debian system. I recently purchased an
> Asus
> > X541-UA-RH71 to install Debian on. I ran into some issues with the wifi
> > setup.
> >
> > When I was installing it said that the firmware for
> rtlwifi/rtl8723befw.bin
> > couldn't be found. Realizing that I probably wouldn' be able to fix the
> > issue without finishing installation, I went on until installed.
> >
> [...]
>
> >
> > Cody
>
> add non-free to your apt sources file (/etc/apt.sources.list)
> The default looks like
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch main
> add at least the non-free to it (maybe contrib too) ->
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
>
> now a
> apt update; apt install firmware-realtek
>
> is all you might need.
>
>
> -H
>
>
>
> --
> Henning Follmann           | hfollmann@itcfollmann.com
>
>

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Laptop Wireless issues Cody Jackson <codyjacks@gmail.com> - 2017-09-13 20:20 +0200
  Re: Laptop Wireless issues Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2017-09-13 20:50 +0200
    Re: Laptop Wireless issues Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2017-09-13 21:20 +0200
      Re: Laptop Wireless issues David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-09-14 17:50 +0200
        Re: Laptop Wireless issues Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2017-09-14 18:20 +0200
  Re: Laptop Wireless issues Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2017-09-13 20:50 +0200
    Re: Laptop Wireless issues Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2017-09-13 21:00 +0200
    Re: Laptop Wireless issues Cody Jackson <codyjacks@gmail.com> - 2017-09-14 23:50 +0200

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