[ltp] No wireless after Debian install

[cr]

A bit late to the party but, for what it's worth, I'm running a T520
with Debian (originally 9.3.0, now Debian 10).    

On initial install of 9.3 I did have to locate the iwlwifi  .deb file
and install it from USB before wireless would work.

When I upgraded to Debian 10 (which I did with a new install) I made
sure to download a netinst .ISO image which included the 'non-free' 
iwlwifi drivers - this meant I downloaded the image from 
cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/nonfree/cd-including-firmware/

(this is because the Intel drivers aren't open-source so 'non-free' so
Debian officially disapproves of them even while it admits the
practical usefulness of including them)

I found either the network manager applet, or the Wicd network manager,
will work.

And the T520 does have a physical Wifi switch, at the front of the
left-hand side.

Chris




On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 22:50:13 -0500
Cynthia Eliason <cyne at cmk4u.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 22:10:34 -0500
> Steve Izma <sizma at golden.net> wrote:
> 
> > Do you have networkmanager installed? It usually has an icon in
> > the taskbar.
> 
> Well, that was it, I was looking in the wrong place.  The "network
> configuration" thingie in the Control Center only listed the Ethernet.
> The icon in the taskbar showed the available wireless networks.  Thank
> you for pointing out what I should have known, and thanks to Basil for
> pointing me in the right direction to find and install the firmware. 
> 
> Cynthia Eliason
>