Ok thanks for that information. I was hoping I could use the laptop with my wifi, wirelessly, so I don't have to be so close to the modem when I'm using the laptop. Years ago when I still had the DSL with the laptop I tried to use wifi at a library and got a message on the screen that I had to change the setting first. I know the wifi password. It's the password to change time and date on the laptop, that I've lost. Attivato lun, ago 3, 2020 alle 16:53, James Knott via talk <talk@gtalug.org> ha scritto:
On 8/3/20 4:43 PM, Astrid R via talk wrote:
I don't have DSL anymore, nor the modem or router I used when I did have it (I was using an ethernet cable) and I now have a different ISP (for the wifi): rogers. The rogers modem is called 'ignite'. I'm trying to use rogers wifi at home on my laptop which only ever used DSL before. I'm already using wifi at home on my phone.
On the desktop I don't see any way of connecting to wifi.
Since you're on Rogers, you will have a modem. You connect to it with an Ethernet cable, just as you did with DSL. You just connect the cable from your computer to the modem and it should just work. As for the WiFi password, you can always get Rogers to reset it, but you'd then have to change it on the phone too. Did you set the password? Or did someone else? If someone else, they may remember what it is.
As I mentioned, you might be using the Network Manager to configure your network connections. If so, you can have both WiFi and Ethernet connections. By default, WiFi would be used, if the Ethernet cable is not connected. If it is, Ethernet will be used. If you're not using Network Manager, you will have some manual configuration, which will vary by Linux distribution --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk