No Network devices available on a cheap HP Stream
I m trying Trisquel on HP Stream netbook, but I see that there´s no wifi at all, does not recognize any network, and "No network devices available" message appears, when I click on WiFi Icon, Enable Networking is ticked on... I m newby to linux, so I don t know what to do to solve this. Is there any missing driver or something?. It is said that It can sometimes be difficult or impossible to get wireless working from live media anyway,but would like to have Trisquel fully working on this netbook. Any help would be very appreciated. Kind regards.
hi arcu ;-)
Trisquel has wireles-tools, and Network Manager as default, you may need to get a dongle from https://www.thinkpenguin.com/catalog/wireless-networking-gnulinux
in order to get wifi working.Network Manager will display information about your connectivity
in a termninal :
$ route
all interfaces
$ ifconfig -a
wifi
$ iwconfig
To see what chipset your wifi card
$ lspci | grep Network
https://h-node.org/
The h-node project aims at the construction of a hardware database in order to identify what devices work with a fully free operating system
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NetworkManager
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WiFiHowTo
If it's Broadcom, it almost certainly won't work without non-free firmware.
You'll probably need a USB wifi dongle.
This one should work (TP-Link TL-WN722N, Atheros AR9271 chip):
http://www.tp-link.com/us/products/details/TL-WN722N.html
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/14-fantastic-wifi-adaptor-tp-link-tl-wn722n
Caveat:
If you want to support free software in devices, it's safe to go with Thinkpenguin, even if it's more costly to do so. TP-Link gives no guarantee that their devices will work with libre software. They may change the chipset at any time without notice, thus rendering the hardware non-functional with libre software, and still retain the same packaging and brand name. Buyer beware.