it's a r8169 on a lenovo thinkpad e470 (i5 model).

On 2018-11-19 01:01 PM, Dhruva lokegaonkar wrote:

Can you tell us what WiFi card your laptop has (or what laptop you use) WiFi should work fine out of the box but some cards need special drivers sometimes (like realtek)

On 19 November 2018 11:47:29 AM IST, Mayuresh Kathe mayuresh@kathe.in wrote:

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hi,

i installed debian 9 on my laptop and it isn't supporting the wifi sub-system. i tried minimal-install of fedora 29 and the wifi is supported but remains unconfigured. so basically, the wifi drivers do exist under linux, just not under stock debian.

is there any particular variant of debian (other than ubuntu and derivates) i should try out to check if it would support wifi networking under my laptop?

thanks,

~mayuresh

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On 2018-11-19 02:27 PM, Rajeev R. K. wrote:

On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 at 13:21, Mayuresh Kathe mayuresh@kathe.in wrote:

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it's a r8169 on a lenovo thinkpad e470 (i5 model).

The r8169 driver supports multiple chipsets. Please share your pci vendor/device id, so we can identify the exact chipset. Also, check the contents of /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/ and look for the various rtl8xxx firmwares.

i ended up running ubuntu 18.04.

the last line of `lspci` gives the following; 05:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 31)

i guess i was wrong, it isn't a r8169.

~mayuresh

On 2018-11-19 07:48 PM, L. Guruprasad wrote:

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 3:31 PM Mayuresh Kathe mayuresh@kathe.in wrote:

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i ended up running ubuntu 18.04.

the last line of `lspci` gives the following; 05:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 31)

i guess i was wrong, it isn't a r8169.

The firmware-atheros non-free package (https://packages.debian.org/stretch/firmware-atheros) should contain the drivers/blobs needed for your Wi-Fi adapter. If you have network connectivity, you can just enable the non-free section and install the package.

The default Debian ISO doesn't ship with non-free firmware/driver blobs any more. But there are unofficial ISO images provided by the project which contain those built-in. See https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware.... So you can also use these ISO images.

thanks for that guruprasad, appreciate your mail.

~mayuresh