Im running Netrunner 18.03 from my live USB, but the WIFI is not active.My laptop is a Asus ROG. My question is why isnt there a Device manager in this version? :huh:
Ksysinfo provides a device manager and comes preinstalled. Or what do you mean?
Can you check please which wifi chip you have.
I did try looking in Ksysinfo and there is no device manager. There is a list of hardware and software information, but no device manager. The reason I ask is because usually you can change or get drivers from there. When I boot into the live environment, the system does not recognize the wifi driver in my laptop. I believe the wifi card is a Broadcom BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter.
(I do have another laptop that I have tried using the live USB from and the wifi connects just fine from that laptop)
But I cannot find a device manager in this new version of Netrunner (18.03 debian).
Here are my system specs:
live@live-pc:~$ inxi -Fxz
System: Host: live-pc Kernel: 4.14.0-3-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 gcc: 7.3.0 Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.12.2 (Qt 5.9.2)
Distro: Netrunner 18.03 - Idolon
Machine: Device: laptop System: ASUSTeK product: G750JW v: 1.0 serial: N/A
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: G750JW v: 1.0 serial: N/A
UEFI: American Megatrends v: G750JW.206 date: 04/26/2013
Battery BAT0: charge: 67.6 Wh 90.4% condition: 74.8/89.2 Wh (84%) model: ASUSTeK G750-59 status: Discharging
CPU: Quad core Intel Core i7-4700HQ (-MT-MCP-) arch: Haswell rev.3 cache: 6144 KB
flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 19155
clock speeds: max: 3400 MHz 1: 798 MHz 2: 798 MHz 3: 798 MHz 4: 798 MHz 5: 798 MHz 6: 799 MHz
7: 798 MHz 8: 798 MHz
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA GK106M [GeForce GTX 765M] bus-ID: 01:00.0
Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 ) drivers: nouveau (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 1920x1080@60.01hz
OpenGL: renderer: NVE6 version: 4.3 Mesa 17.3.6 Direct Render: Yes
Audio: Card-1 Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio Controller
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Card-2 NVIDIA GK106 HDMI Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 01:00.1
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.14.0-3-amd64
Network: Card-1: Broadcom Limited BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
driver: bcma-pci-bridge bus-ID: 03:00.0
IF: N/A state: N/A mac: N/A
Card-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA8171 Gigabit Ethernet driver: alx port: d000 bus-ID: 04:00.0
IF: enp4s0 state: down mac:
Drives: HDD Total Size: NA (-)
ID-1: /dev/sdb model: ST2000LM003_HN size: 2000.4GB temp: 21C
ID-2: /dev/sda model: Samsung_SSD_850 size: 500.1GB temp: 0C
ID-3: USB /dev/sdc model: Cruzer_Glide size: 125.5GB temp: 0C
Partition: ID-1: / size: 7.8G used: 61M (1%) fs: overlay dev: N/A
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 36.0C mobo: N/A gpu: 40.0
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 0
Info: Processes: 225 Uptime: 4 min Memory: 629.9/15961.9MB Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 7.3.0
Client: Shell (bash 4.4.181) inxi: 2.3.56
live@live-pc:~$
I take it then, there is no solution? :s
So you are confusing device manager with proprietary software installer.
By default we provide already proprietary wifi drivers.
However for the broadcom drivers to work some manual work needs to be done. See https://wiki.debian.org/wl