Problems with network in installation

Problems with network in installation

[chalamov--- via]

Hello,

I can not connect to wi-fi during the installation of the Gnu Guix. I don't know what to do.
Could you help me?

Greetings,
Maria

Re: Problems with network in installation

[pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 10:38:26AM +0100, chalamov--- via wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I can not connect to wi-fi during the installation of the Gnu Guix. I don't know what to do.
> Could you help me?
> 
> Greetings,
> Maria

Sadly many (all?) modern Wi-fi devices have no support for the
Linux-libre kernel.  See
<https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Hardware-Considerations.html#Hardware-Considerations>.

It is lilkely that you can press Ctrl+Alt+F3 in the Guix installer and
then run “lspci” to see which device you have for networking.

Many approaches are possible.  Either:

1) Get a Wi-fi device (for example, a USB Wi-fi dongle) that is
   supported on Linux-libre.  See <https://www.h-node.org/>.

2) Use a cable connection instead of wi-fi.

3) Use a kernel with support for your Wi-fi device.  Guix does not
   support such kernels.

4) Use Guix on a foreign distribution.

Regards,
Florian

Re: Problems with network in installation

[Joshua Branson]

"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> writes:

> On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 10:38:26AM +0100, chalamov--- via wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I can not connect to wi-fi during the installation of the Gnu Guix. I don't know what to do.
>> Could you help me?
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Maria
>
> Sadly many (all?) modern Wi-fi devices have no support for the
> Linux-libre kernel.  See
> <https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Hardware-Considerations.html#Hardware-Considerations>.
>
> It is lilkely that you can press Ctrl+Alt+F3 in the Guix installer and
> then run “lspci” to see which device you have for networking.
>
> Many approaches are possible.  Either:
>
> 1) Get a Wi-fi device (for example, a USB Wi-fi dongle) that is
>    supported on Linux-libre.  See <https://www.h-node.org/>.

You can purchase one of these devices from
https://www.thinkpenguin.com/catalog/wireless-networking-gnulinux

> 3) Use a kernel with support for your Wi-fi device.  Guix does not
>    support such kernels.
>
> 4) Use Guix on a foreign distribution.
>
> Regards,
> Florian
>

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