realtek and mint

wis · 08-15-2015, 10:20 AM

trying to give life to a msi ms-6580 motherboard running p4 2.40ghz with 512 ram, video card is a nvidia geforce ti 4200.the problem is i reformat a hard drive with mint 17.1 and now am trieing to connect to the internet using realtek rtl819 usb,the router is a wireless 802.11n the signal is encrypted in wpa2. i click network, i get a pop up saying Ethernet,i click and does nothing, mmm need help

273 · 08-15-2015, 10:31 AM

You might need to install the firmware but installing something like this:
https://packages.debian.org/jessie/firmware-realtek

wis · 08-15-2015, 05:24 PM

did not work , mmm

273 · 08-15-2015, 05:27 PM

I tend to find wicd more use than most but, other than that, you would have to be more specific regarding your issues.

wis · 08-15-2015, 06:43 PM

tried https://packages.debian.org/jessie/firmware-realtek. and it did not work

wis · 08-16-2015, 02:35 PM

problem is that i cannot go on line with the realtek rtl819 usb to download the package

273 · 08-16-2015, 02:38 PM

You can download the package under Windows and put it on a USB stick then install it with:

Code:

sudo dpkg -i firmware-realtek

But better would be if you could plug your machine into the router temporarily to install things.