Install Lan drivers without internet connection

rafasa · 09-17-2013, 01:00 PM

Hey!

I unistalled gnome to install xfce4 on debian wheezy. Everything is ok, besides the wireless and lan drivers
that I guess were unistalled (now I'm without internet connection).

How can I reinstall these to have internet access again?

PS: I just have internet access in another OS that I have installed as dual boot.

Thanks in advance,
rafasa

zeebra · 09-17-2013, 03:53 PM

Code:

ifconfig eth0 down

Code:

ifconfig eth0 up

Code:

dhclient eth0

lsmod and lspci tell you anything?

rafasa · 09-17-2013, 04:31 PM

Now it's working! Thank you very much!

To automatically do this on the startup, what should I do? Just add those commands to .bashrc?

It's a bit weird because commands like reboot, ifconfig, etc. just work in root mode. Even sudo does not work outside root. What should I do to have this fixed?

EDIT: Seems like all the drivers are off. Wireless and touchpad drivers are not working aswell.

zeebra · 09-18-2013, 12:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rafasa

Now it's working! Thank you very much!

To automatically do this on the startup, what should I do? Just add those commands to .bashrc?

It's a bit weird because commands like reboot, ifconfig, etc. just work in root mode. Even sudo does not work outside root. What should I do to have this fixed?

EDIT: Seems like all the drivers are off. Wireless and touchpad drivers are not working aswell.

Should normally be happening automatically with most distroes. Depends a little on the situation. Normally a "networkmanager" handles that stuff.

I think in debian you might have to install the network manager yourself. I have the same behaviour with Debian, but I am running the Netinstaller version with minimum software. I dont know if one is included in the normal cd version. Should be in DVD version for sure.

rafasa · 09-18-2013, 12:30 PM

I solved the problem by the easiest way - install a lot of xfce4 packages. The command I used was:

Code:

apt-get install `apt-cache search xfce | cut -d ' ' -f1`

I still don't know exactly what the problem was, but I guess that when I uninstalled gnome I also uninstalled some packages I didn't want to or, at least, changed some PATH's.

Thank you again for your help.