Wireless not connecting...

[Robert Heller]

At Fri, 31 May 2019 14:17:54 +0200 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 31 May 2019 at 13:52, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> >
> > Network install using Ethernet / PXE.  The hardwired NIC is working just fine
> > (also a Realtex chip).
> 
> Wow. OK. The last time I set that kind of thing up, it was to install
> Red Hat Linux 4.x onto a SPARCstation!

I have tftp set up on the library server as well as my home system.  I find it 
easy and simple.  Using this method to install avoids scrambling either for 
install media or "spare" USB drives.  And if the machine with the tftp server 
also has an up-to-date repo mirror, one does not have to deal with either repo 
media (typical of RHEL/CentOS) or network issues during install 
(non-functional WiFi, etc.).  It is rare to not have a functional Ethernet, at 
least so long as the device has a hardwired Ethernet port.  So far, the only 
machine I have had to deal with with that did not have a hardwired Ethernet is 
a Pocket Beagle, but those sorts of machines get installed via a read-to-run 
disk image onto a MicroSD card, so that does not really count.

> 
> But if you're happy with it, then netboot Mint or Fedora or something,
> just to see if Wifi works.

Don't have Fedora, but do have Mint, but not as a netboot image (I have the 
ISO image files).

> 

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