On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 5:22 PM Maureen L Thomas <silver...@verizon.net> wrote: > > So I have been snooping around the system and found this message in the lshw > command: > > *-generic DISABLED > > description: Wireless interface > > product: RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter > > vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. > > physical id: 0 > > bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0 > > logical name: wlp2s0 > > version: ff > > serial: 3e:c2:77:77:6a:31 > > width: 32 bits > > clock: 66MHz > > capabilities: bus_master vga_palette cap_list ethernet physical wireless > > configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtw_8821ce driverversion=5.10.0-23-amd64 > firmware=N/A latency=255 link=no maxlatency=255 mingnt=255 multicast=yes > wireless=IEEE 802.11 > > resources: irq:129 ioport:d000(size=256) memory:df000000-df00ffff > > Could this be part of the problem. I have no wifi so that is part of the > problem. This is Disabled so how do I enable it? > > Thank you guys for being patient with this old lady..
See the part about non-free-firmware at https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUpgrade . Jeff