Re: connect Ethernet to WiFi?

2016-02-19 Thread Ron
On Thu, 18 Feb 2016 15:17:07 -0700 Thomas D Dial wrote: > A quick way to get a compatible USB WiFi would be to order one for a > Raspberry Pi from a store that sells the latter. In the US I would use > Newark.com. Searching Amazon for "Raspberry pi wifi" brings up a multitude of

Re: connect Ethernet to WiFi?

2016-02-18 Thread Thomas D Dial
A quick way to get a compatible USB WiFi would be to order one for a Raspberry Pi from a store that sells the latter. In the US I would use Newark.com. Tom On 02/18/2016 01:49 AM, Staszek wrote: > Hi > > How do I connect an old laptop without WiFi (but with free USB ports and > working wired

Re: connect Ethernet to WiFi?

2016-02-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
Arvidsson wrote: Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 14:34:10 From: Sven Arvidsson <s...@whiz.se> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: connect Ethernet to WiFi? On Thu, 2016-02-18 at 14:00 -0500, doug wrote: I looked at the first url shown above, and I see two usb adapters  smaller than a mat

Re: connect Ethernet to WiFi?

2016-02-18 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2016-02-18 at 14:00 -0500, doug wrote: > I looked at the first url shown above, and I see two usb adapters  > smaller than a matchbook, and one with an antenna. Recently I had to > spend some time in a rehab center, and I did not have a Linux driver > for  > my old Dell laptop, so I bought

Re: connect Ethernet to WiFi?

2016-02-18 Thread doug
On 02/18/2016 03:48 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 10:20:25AM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: [...] http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/respects-your-freedom https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi How could I have forgotten about

Re: connect Ethernet to WiFi?

2016-02-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
uldn't do it > using command line utilities even with javascript enabled. > > On Thu, 18 Feb 2016, Staszek wrote: > > >Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 03:49:48 > >From: Staszek <stf.list.ot...@eisenbits.com> > >To: Debian users mailing list <debian-user@lists.debian.org> &

Re: connect Ethernet to WiFi?

2016-02-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
, 18 Feb 2016, Staszek wrote: Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 03:49:48 From: Staszek <stf.list.ot...@eisenbits.com> To: Debian users mailing list <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: connect Ethernet to WiFi? Resent-Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 08:58:14 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.de

Re: connect Ethernet to WiFi?

2016-02-18 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 10:20:25AM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: [...] > http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/respects-your-freedom > https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi How could I have forgotten about those? Thanks, Sven! - -- t -BEGIN PGP

Re: connect Ethernet to WiFi?

2016-02-18 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2016-02-18 at 09:49 +0100, Staszek wrote: > How do I connect an old laptop without WiFi (but with free USB ports > and > working wired Ethernet card) running Debian stable to a WiFi network, > without installing non-free software on the laptop? What devices > would > you recommend? Either

Re: connect Ethernet to WiFi?

2016-02-18 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 09:49:48AM +0100, Staszek wrote: > Hi > > How do I connect an old laptop without WiFi (but with free USB ports and > working wired Ethernet card) running Debian stable to a WiFi network, > without installing non-free software

connect Ethernet to WiFi?

2016-02-18 Thread Staszek
Hi How do I connect an old laptop without WiFi (but with free USB ports and working wired Ethernet card) running Debian stable to a WiFi network, without installing non-free software on the laptop? What devices would you recommend? -- http://people.eisenbits.com/~stf/ http://www.eisenbits.com/