Thread:TK-999/@comment-4347751-20140702190635

Hi, TK, a while ago you helped me with installing Debian OS, but then I ran into a problem with wifi, you sort of pointed me in the right direction about solving this, but I gave up and decided that I would eventually just install Windows 8 over debian and start fresh. However, like per usual, I have not done what I proposed I would do and recently started to try and get wifi working in debian.

I went back over the thread we had a while ago, 2013, and followed the instructions. I ran lspci which returned a lot of stuff, as you sugested, I looked for the bit which related to Network Controller which was;

14:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (rev 01)

Then, as you suggested I ran;

get http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/firmware/wheezy/current/firmware.tar.gz && tar xvzf firmware.tar.gz && cd firmware && ls

Which in turn, returned;

./firmware-b43-installer_015-14.1_all.deb ./firmware-b43-lpphy-installer_015-14.1_all.deb ./firmware-b43legacy-installer_015-14.1_all.deb ./prism2-usb-firmware-installer_0.2.9+dfsg-5_amd64.deb ./prism2-usb-firmware-installer_0.2.9+dfsg-5_armel.deb ./prism2-usb-firmware-installer_0.2.9+dfsg-5_armhf.deb ./prism2-usb-firmware-installer_0.2.9+dfsg-5_i386.deb ./prism2-usb-firmware-installer_0.2.9+dfsg-5_powerpc.deb ./firmware-linux-free_3.2_all.deb ./amd64-microcode_1.20120910-2_amd64.deb ./amd64-microcode_1.20120910-2_i386.deb ./atmel-firmware_1.3-4_all.deb ./bluez-firmware_1.2-3_all.deb ./firmware-atheros_0.36+wheezy.1_all.deb ./firmware-bnx2_0.36+wheezy.1_all.deb ./firmware-bnx2x_0.36+wheezy.1_all.deb ./firmware-brcm80211_0.36+wheezy.1_all.deb ./firmware-intelwimax_0.36+wheezy.1_all.deb ./firmware-ipw2x00_0.36+wheezy.1_all.deb ./firmware-ivtv_0.36+wheezy.1_all.deb ./firmware-iwlwifi_0.36+wheezy.1_all.deb ./firmware-libertas_0.36+wheezy.1_all.deb ./firmware-linux-nonfree_0.36+wheezy.1_all.deb ./firmware-myricom_0.36+wheezy.1_all.deb ./firmware-netxen_0.36+wheezy.1_all.deb ./firmware-qlogic_0.36+wheezy.1_all.deb ./firmware-ralink_0.36+wheezy.1_all.deb ./firmware-realtek_0.36+wheezy.1_all.deb ./intel-microcode_1.20140122.1_amd64.deb ./intel-microcode_1.20140122.1_i386.deb ./ixp4xx-microcode_2.4-3_armel.deb ./libertas-firmware_9.70.7.p0.0-2_all.deb ./zd1211-firmware_2.21.0.0-1_all.deb

I've put the one that relates to me in bold. With that, I entered;

dpkg -i firmware-realtek_0.36+wheezy.1_all.deb

Then it did some reading database untill it got to 70% then returned;

Selecting previously unselected package firmware-realtek. dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: reading files list for package 'netpbm': Input/output error

Have you got any idea where I should go from here? I know this might be asking much, and you don't need to help, but I'd appreciate it if you would, seeing you know about debian. Even if you decide not to help, could you leave a comment or something, telling me that you don't want to help, so I am not waiting for a reply that isn't coming. Thanks. 