General Question

[Jeffrey Lapinski]

As usual, I get stuck with the network configuration! I can never get it to auto detect

 

[alkion]

wifi, cable?

 

[Jeffrey Lapinski]

Currently I am at work and was trying to do it from here, it's wifi. I did an install without configuring the network. Just brings me to bash once it is installed so I assume that is because I didn't do the network configuration.

 

[Jeffrey Lapinski]

I also do not leave out the option that I am doing something incorrectly! I have been using Linux for a few years now but I have always installed distros w/ GUI installers

 

[alkion]

You have installed the wifi driver?

 

[Jeffrey Lapinski]

not manually

 

[alkion]

Show command results:

lspci -v

ip a

what distribution is it?

 

[Jeffrey Lapinski]

That will be tricky... I am on line on a different laptop than the one I am trying to install on

 

[Jeffrey Lapinski]

I am going to attempt it again from home and see if my home settings are automatically detected. If not I will post.

 

[alkion]

It's a wifi card from a laptop or a usb one?

 

[Jeffrey Lapinski]

laptop

Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: ASUSTeK
           driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d000 bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8168
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
           Device-2: Intel Wireless 7265 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: d000 bus ID: 03:00.0
           chip ID: 8086:095a

 

[alkion]

apt install firmware-realtek

 

[Jeffrey Lapinski]

Great, thank you!

 

[alkion]

You take a distro, you learn, you use it all the time you improve and it's ok (debian approached me best)
but I checked ubuntu, mint, opensuse, fedora, slackware and FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris.

 

[Jeffrey Lapinski]

I started with Ubuntu, migrated to Mint then Manjaro. I hopped back to Deb based distros but I am most comfortable with Manjaro to be honest.

 

[alkion]

Then use Manjaro, deepen your knowledge, adapt it to your needs and it's ok.

 

[Jeffrey Lapinski]

That's exactly what I did!