On Tue, 24 Dec 2019 11:49:39 -0600 Kent West <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 11:11 AM kaye n <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 6:37 PM Richard Owlett <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >> > >> Exactly which ISO file did you download? > >> > >> That paragraph describes what you would see if you ran the netinst.iso > >> WITHOUT an active network connection. > >> > >> IOW, for whatever reason, the installer does not have access to a > >> repository. > >> > > > > It's the debian-10.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso > > > > I did ran the .iso without an active network connection, because it > > refused to connect to my wifi. It asked for the ESSID (?), which I assumed > > is the same as SSID, so I typed in the SSID and the password, but it just > > would not connect. > > > > Wireless adapters are typically not well-supported with Free software; I > believe what you're running into is the lack of appropriate hardware > drivers for your wireless NIC, because the drivers in the default Debian > are not Free. > > You'll need to add the "non-free" option to your "/etc/apt/sources.list",
Small but important correction: it's not generally the drivers that are non-free, but the firmware. The difference is that drivers run on the system running Debian, while the firmware is uploaded to the NIC and runs on that. This distinction may or may not matter to you, depending on your political / ethical / technical perspectives, but it should be understood. Celejar
