And thank you all who pointed me at the non-free installer files. I will
try that later today with luck
well, modified rapture1
i booted from the usb stick with the firmware .iso and tried an install. I
accepted the licence for the firmware and proceeded to configure the wifi.
It asked for the ESSID offering me the correct one, and I said it was PSK.
It then asked for the passphrase which I provided, and then into a loop
which network?
which essid?
what passphrase?
until I got bored. So it still does not configure the wifi
So for want f a better idea I plugged in the wired network and just did a
reboot. Working from the tty on alt-f1 I tried to look at the network --
not sure what I did but I eventually noticed the wifi was working with the
same ip address as the wired. Pulled the plug on ethernet and carried on
trying to get a more reasonable software base. Actually got xorg/xdm/fvwm
all "working" with missing stuff on the menus, in particular xterm. So
tried to install it, and then I rebooted --- no wifi now an no idea how to
fix.
Would ubuntu give me a stable base i wonder. I do not seem to be getting
anywhere yet.
==John ff