On Thu 25 Apr 2019 at 11:30:56 (+0200), Erik Josefsson wrote: > Den 2019-04-25 kl. 07:21, skrev David Wright: > > The only thing guaranteed by installing the "Depends" is that > > all the function calls will point at some runnable code rather than > > just pointing into thin air. > > Thin air and deep waters is where I'm at.
(But not in the sense I meant.) > I'm trying to set up the "tui" [text-based user interface] for the > [Teres debian laptop]. About which, I know nothing (the hardware or the TUI). > I think the tui is designed to be quite minimal (hence I post in this > thread). Bad choice. Because of the frequency of the OP's subject line, I think a lot of people will have ignored and delete the entire thread. I would start a new thread with a subject line that includes teres and DNS resolution. > I am surprised that I got iwd to connect to MY_OWN_WIFI: > > iwctl station wlan0 get-networks > iwctl station wlan0 connect MY_OWN_WIFI > > by copying psk file MY_OWN_WIFI.psk from another machine and then by putting > it into /var/lib/iwd/ on the Teres debian laptop. I don't recognise the iwctl command. That's really low-level stuff. > But it seems I have no DNS resolution (I can use the links-browser to go to > web pages by IP numbers, but not by domain names). > > I cannot do apt update. I get a "temporary failure resolving > 'deb.debian.org'". > > I'm not sure what exactly I'm asking for here. I guess I need the IP number > of a DNS-server that some program can ask where deb.debian.org is located. What's in /etc/resolv.conf, and what has worked for you in the past/another machine? For many home users, it's likely just nameserver 192.168.1.1 where that's the address of their router (assuming *it's* been configured.) Cheers, David.
