On Fri 16 Mar 2018 at 06:38:50 (+0100), solitone wrote: > Just installed scratch with xfce4 on an oldish machine, downloading all
I'll assume you mean stretch. > the needed packages through my wifi adapter. > > On first boot wifi is down, and there is no application I can use to > choose and connect to my wifi access point. > > I realize that xfce's own Airconfig has never lifted off and is > currently unreleased, abandoned and unmaintained, so xfce users usually > use NetworkManager or Wicd. > > I would suggest that any of these is installed by default when xfce is > chosen during installation. Perhaps you hit bug #694068 which was recently back under discussion here. You should find that ifupdown can give you a wireless connection if you retype the paragraph into /etc/network/interfaces that was probably there when you installed Debian, but has "evaporated". allow-hotplug wlan0 iface wlan0 inet dhcp wpa-ssid <access_point> wpa-psk <secret> Replace wlan0 by the interface name starting with wl given by $ ip a Cheers, David.
