On 12 June 2018 at 20:31, William Morder <doctor_contendo@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Actually, it's running sort of okay, which is surprising, considering that I > cannot find my wlan0 interface, yet I can still connect to the internet and > send and receive emails; except that, as far as my system is concerned, I am > not actually connected, even though I really am connected. > > It all started when I couldn't download packages from the repository at > security.debian.org. After doing a little research, I discovered that > security packages will no longer be supported for Jessie after (I think) 17 > June 2018. And I had been putting off upgrading to Stretch, and furthermore I > really wanted to switch to Devuan. So now I've done it, but there are a few > bugs. I was worried that my system would be unusable, but instead it is just > somewhat crippled. > > So my process was first to change repositories in my sources.list, from Jessie > to Stretch, then I upgraded. Then I changed sources.list again to Devuan > Ascii, and upgraded yet again. > > Now my network managers and other network-aware programs cannot recognize > wlan0. (I use a wifi antenna to connect my desktop to the shared network in > my building, which has been fairly stable.) Don't even bother suggesting that > I try eth0, as there is nothing here for me to plug in *to*: it's wifi or > nothing. > > I seem to recall that other systems (maybe Stretch?) used different names for > some of the same interfaces, so it might just be a problem of renaming my > wlan0 interface to something else. Only I can't find any other names. > > Also I cannot use Tor, or anything over proxy servers. As I said, the problem > here seems to be that my system cannot find the interface that I use to > connect. I can see activity over what appears to be wlan0, yet I cannot > activate wlan0 either through a gui program, or by command-line, or by > changing the lines in > /etc/network/interfaces > ... so any help here would be appreciated. It seems to be a simple basic > problem, since I still have a running system with some kind of network. > > But yay! I have got Devuan Ascii running on my system, so I imagine the rest > of my problems as just fine tuning. > > Please help! > > Bill Something similar happened after I installed Devuan Ascii in a new partition: wlan0 wasn't seen by wicd or any other program. After a lot of fussing, I had to get a deb file with the driver for my wireless card and install it using gdebi. After that, wlan0 was available (maybe had to reboot). - R --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
