[GTALUG] DSL to wifi

[Astrid R]

Thanks, I'll keep this information handy. The password I lost is to 'authenticate' to allow certain changes once logged in.

Attivato lun, ago 3, 2020 alle 20:27, Russell Reiter <rreiter91 at gmail.com> ha scritto:

> On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 5:08 PM Astrid R via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>
>> Thanks. Here's a short video that shows what happens when I turn on the laptop. I hope it's clear enough to be helpful.
>>
>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/zsss7a5pnu0emwu/IMG_1210.MOV?dl=0
>
> Got some info from that. You are running Debian release Wheezy. Boot seems normal, directly to your user, without a login manager in between and the Network Manager icon is in the system tray, right beside your name Astrid Rammo. You appear to be running the Gnome desktop.
>
> When you say you forgot your password, do you mean your user login password. Automation in graphical logins kind of does that to you. As a user you can edit the grub boot lines for either the regular kernel and invoke a root shell, or the recovery kernel in order to boot into a setup menu and set whatever login passwords you need to.
>
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/92556/how-do-i-boot-into-a-root-shell
>
> There is a link with some wifi setup info here, but if you are not comfortable with using shell commands, this information is not going to be much help.
>
> I haven't touched wheezy for a few years now so I don't remember exactly how to navigate through network management.
>
> Maybe someone currently using Debian could help you walk through this.
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse
>
>> Attivato lun, ago 3, 2020 alle 16:55, Howard Gibson <hgibson at eol.ca> ha scritto:
>>
>>> On Mon, 03 Aug 2020 20:43:40 +0000
>>> Astrid R via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks for your replies. Before I go on I should say I discovered that I no longer have the password to change the date and time, so it might not be possible to change anything else either.
>>>>
>>>> But in case there might be a way, I hope the following is useful.
>>>>
>>>> I'm using a Dell laptop.
>>>>
>>>> Not sure if this is the distribution and release...GNU Grub 1.99-27 +deb 7u2...
>>>
>>> Astrid,
>>>
>>> When your GNI login window comes up, does it say Debian, or Ubuntu?
>>> Next to the username and password box, you should see a menu that
>>> selects your desktop. If you pull this down, you should see Gnome,
>>> Unity, XFCE, LXDM, or possibly FVWM. I, and a bunch of other people
>>> here, love FVWM, but I highly do not recommend it for beginners.
>>>
>>> When you log into Gnome or Unity, you pull the menu down at the top
>>> right-hand side of your screen, and networking is one of the options.
>>> You need to know what your wireless device is called, and you need the
>>> password.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Howard Gibson
>>> hgibson at eol.ca
>>> jhowardgibson at gmail.com
>>> http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson
>>
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