Re: USB wireless dongle not detected

From	Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: USB wireless dongle not detected
Date	2019-07-18 19:10 +0200
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On Thursday 18 July 2019 12:28:18 Richard Hobson wrote:

> Curt wrote:
> > Of course, if you have no network connectivity on the machine, this
> > might prove to be a difficult maneuver. However, you could download
> > the package from another machine with connectivity and transfer it
> > via sneakernet to the machine with the realtek wifi dongle, where it
> > might be installed like this (as root or with sudo):
> >
> >  dpkg -i firmware-realtek_20190502-1_all.deb
>
> Thanks for the link. I've downloaded the package, transferred it to
> the PC using a USB stick and run dpkg as above.
>
> I get two warnings followed by a related error.
>
> warning: 'ldconfig' not found in PATH or not executable
> warning: 'start-stop-daemon' not found in PATH or not executable
> error: 2 expected programs not found in PATH or not executable
>
> then a note about what root's path should usually contain
> /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin
>
> It's about ten years since I last used Linux and I can't even remember
> how to check the PATH! However, I doubt there's anything wrong with it
> in a new installation.
>
> Does it matter where I've put the .deb file? At the moment it's in the
> Downloads directory of my userbname and I'm runnng dpkg from there as
> root.
>
> R
echo $PATH. And expect it to be different between yourself and sudo 
whoever.

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USB wireless dongle not detected Richard Hobson <hobsonrj@gmail.com> - 2019-07-17 15:00 +0200
  Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-07-17 15:40 +0200
  Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org> - 2019-07-17 16:10 +0200
    Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Richard Hobson <hobsonrj@gmail.com> - 2019-07-17 17:10 +0200
      Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org> - 2019-07-17 17:10 +0200
        Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Richard Hobson <hobsonrj@gmail.com> - 2019-07-17 18:40 +0200
      Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-07-17 18:00 +0200
        Re: Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Richard Hobson <hobsonrj@gmail.com> - 2019-07-18 18:50 +0200
          Re: Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-07-18 19:00 +0200
            Re: Re: Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Richard Hobson <hobsonrj@gmail.com> - 2019-07-18 19:30 +0200
          Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-07-18 19:00 +0200
            Re: Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Richard Hobson <hobsonrj@gmail.com> - 2019-07-18 19:50 +0200
              Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-07-18 22:10 +0200
                Re: Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Richard Hobson <hobsonrj@gmail.com> - 2019-07-19 01:30 +0200
                Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-07-19 05:00 +0200
          Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-07-18 19:10 +0200
      Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2019-07-18 08:10 +0200
        Re: USB wireless dongle not detected David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-07-18 23:50 +0200
          Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2019-07-19 00:20 +0200
  Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-07-17 16:30 +0200
  Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2019-07-17 16:50 +0200

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