On Tue 18 Jan 2022 at 14:30:45 +0100, Loïc Grenié wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue 18 Jan 2022 at 07:48, R. Toby Richards wrote: > > > Every time that I search for solutions to my wifi drivers, the solution is > > to apt-get install a bunch of drivers. Why does nobody realize that apt'ing > > anything is a non-solution: How can I apt-get install <network drivers> if > > I don't have network drivers? There are DOZENS of responses to questions > > about network drivers that say to apt-get install various packages without > > any thought to the fact that nobody can apt without first having network > > drivers. It's seriously starting to **** me off. I've got computers with > > Broadcom wifi. How the heck am I going to fix that by using networking to > > download the gosh darn drivers to fix the networking that I don't have? Of > > the dozens of "solutions" that I've read about this, NOBODY ever thinks > > about how to fix the network driver without having a network driver. > > > > Do I know how to use sneakernet? Yes. In my young adulthood, email was > > dialing into a BBS that would then dial the next closest free telephone > > call to another BBS, and so forth until your message from California got to > > the East Coast. Days. I remember trucks with huge spools of > > punch-cards that were data for the mainframe. > > > > I've been hit several time with this same problem, or variants thereof, > and my solution has always been to have a separate computer with > network access and use sneakernet between the two computers. > I've always wondered how to do it better.
Wonder no longer :). Acquaint yourself with netcat. -- Brian.