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Re: Problems with network in installation
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Joshua Branson |
Subject: |
Re: Problems with network in installation |
Date: |
Thu, 25 Feb 2021 12:05:35 -0500 |
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"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> writes:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 10:38:26AM +0100, chalamov--- via wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I can not connect to wi-fi during the installation of the Gnu Guix. I don't
>> know what to do.
>> Could you help me?
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Maria
>
> Sadly many (all?) modern Wi-fi devices have no support for the
> Linux-libre kernel. See
> <https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Hardware-Considerations.html#Hardware-Considerations>.
>
> It is lilkely that you can press Ctrl+Alt+F3 in the Guix installer and
> then run “lspci” to see which device you have for networking.
>
> Many approaches are possible. Either:
>
> 1) Get a Wi-fi device (for example, a USB Wi-fi dongle) that is
> supported on Linux-libre. See <https://www.h-node.org/>.
You can purchase one of these devices from
https://www.thinkpenguin.com/catalog/wireless-networking-gnulinux
> 3) Use a kernel with support for your Wi-fi device. Guix does not
> support such kernels.
>
> 4) Use Guix on a foreign distribution.
>
> Regards,
> Florian
>
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