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  Debian Jessie question about web Billy O <wpo5billypo@gmail.com> - 2017-02-03 05:40 +0100
    Re: Debian Jessie question about web Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2017-02-03 16:20 +0100
    Re: Debian Jessie question about web Glenn English <ghe2001@gmail.com> - 2017-02-03 20:30 +0100

#177327 — Debian Jessie question about web

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So i have been looking around and reading for while now as far as
connecting to a wifi network what might i be missing in this area i am on a
dell i386 also what would i need to know about drag and drop to desktop
options if its possible.

Thanks for the time reading this email

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On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 09:15:32PM -0700, Billy O wrote:
> So i have been looking around and reading for while now as far as
> connecting to a wifi network what might i be missing in this area i am on a
> dell i386 also what would i need to know about drag and drop to desktop
> options if its possible.
> 
> Thanks for the time reading this email

You are going to have to be a bit more explicit about the problem you 
are seeing. You don't even say what problem you have. We are left to 
infer something is wrong with your WiFi.

Share a bit more, and maybe someone here can help. What are you trying 
to do, exactly? What, exactly, is happening when you try? What have you 
tried so far to solve the problem?

Some more questions to get you started:

Are you having a problem connecting to a WiFi network? Does your 
computer recognise your WiFi hardware? Does your computer recognise a 
WiFi link (which may be DOWN and therefore not working if you are having 
trouble connecting to a WiFi Access Point)? What desktop are you using? 
(eg Gnome, KDE, etc -- which desktop you are using affects how you will 
see available WiFi networks) For that matter what version of Debian? If 
basic WiFi support is working, does your computer recognise WiFi access 
points that are in range? If yes, what happens when you try to connect 
to one?

Jumping ahead, if you just can't get the computer to recognise it has 
WiFi, and you are certain the computer actually has WiFi, it is probably 
a driver or a firmware problem. That will take us down one road. On the 
other hand if you have a link but it is not connecting to any WiFi 
network, we will need more info about what you are trying and what is 
happening to help.

Mark

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On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 9:15 PM, Billy O <wpo5billypo@gmail.com> wrote:

> So i have been looking around and reading for while now as far as
> connecting to a wifi network what might i be missing in this area i am on a
> dell i386 also what would i need to know about drag and drop to desktop
> options if its possible.
>

If your trouble has to do with i386/Jessie/wifi, I can assure you that it
does work. It's on my GoBook laptop (i686 with the i386 Debian Jessie
release) running XFCE4 with the WICD net manager. It switches happily
between Ethernet and wifi.

Sorta -- I need to fix up the routing table and /etc/resolv.conf sometimes.
Somebody (Comcast or Debian or WICD or me) could do a little better with
the wifi DHCP.

-- 
Glenn English

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