Re: Upgrade to Debian 11 and still have the same problems.

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 5:22 PM Maureen L Thomas <silverorb@verizon.net> wrote:
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> So I have been snooping around the system and found this message in the lshw command:
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> *-generic DISABLED
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> description: Wireless interface
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> product: RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
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> vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
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> physical id: 0
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> bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
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> logical name: wlp2s0
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> version: ff
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> serial: 3e:c2:77:77:6a:31
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> width: 32 bits
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> clock: 66MHz
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> capabilities: bus_master vga_palette cap_list ethernet physical wireless
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> configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtw_8821ce driverversion=5.10.0-23-amd64 firmware=N/A latency=255 link=no maxlatency=255 mingnt=255 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
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> resources: irq:129 ioport:d000(size=256) memory:df000000-df00ffff
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> Could this be part of the problem.  I have no wifi so that is part of the problem.  This is Disabled so how do I enable it?
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> Thank you guys for being patient with this old lady..

See the part about non-free-firmware at https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUpgrade .

Jeff