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hacking debian to bits

11:24 Friday 29 May 2015 JST

Crud.

I forgot to consider the chipset when getting my wifi USB thing. I can't figure out how to make Debian use it.

The Dell is essentially not useable for me as a work computer without wifi unless I string a network cable from our living room to my desk, which I don't think Lin would like because I can't do it in a way that will allow the doors to close (without damaging the house).

Anyway, I tried to reinstall Debian to have it "self detect" the USB wifi, but it still didn't seem to work, AND it kept failing at the install step which added the environment (e.g. KDE, Gnome, default) I tried various combinations, including just doing the defaults, but it still failed and I couldn't find a log of the error.

Anyway, anyway, I'm going to try Linux Mint installation. If this doesn't work with wifi card, I'll consider buying a new card as well as scheduling a time to meet Travis who offered to support my Debian experience.