Quote from: Thurgood Jenkins on July 28, 2013, 09:25 pmHey everyone,So I just bought a new computer to run Tails full time so I don't have to restart my current one. I went with a pc cause I'm not going to actually have to use Windows 8-thank god- and they have cheap small ones. Just getting tails to boot on Windows 8 was a pain, but now I have tails up and running, but it doesn't recognize any networks. I ran tails on my mac to see if it was tails or just the computer, and it had no problems. I then tried to use the pc for internet without tails, didn't have an issue.When I run tails, I run the standard Tails, not the "bridges" version or "truecrypt", just Tails on a persistent drive. When I click on the network icon, this is what shows up "No network devices available". Please help.Thanks,Thurgood<Sigh>. The key phrase here is: "... I just bought a new computer to run Tails full time...." More than likely, you're running into a hardware/driver issue. You have to understand that you simply cannot go out and buy any computer and have it automatically guaranteed to work with Linux -- this goes double for laptops. The reason for this is simple: the manufacturers have a vested interest in creating drivers for Windows. On the other hand, most of the Linux drivers that exist were created by volunteers. Wifi support has always been somewhat problematic when it comes to Linux. I'm not saying that the situation is hopeless, but what I am saying is that if drivers are available, it may take some effort to get them working (assuming that it can be done in the first place.)The first step is determining precisely what hardware is inside your laptop. For that, you can use a Windows software package called Speccy. You can download it from: http://www.piriform.com/speccySpeccy should show the manufacturer, and chipset of your wireless hardware. I'll also need to see the output of the following commands from Tails: lspciThis command should show the hardware that Tails is able to see. ifconfig (needs to be run as root)This command will show you all the available network interfaces. PM me with the results, and we'll take it from there. Nightcrawler4096R/BBF7433B 2012-09-22 Nightcrawler <Nightcrawler@SR>PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xB8F1D88EBBF7433B   (MIT clearnet keyserver)PGP Key: https://keys.indymedia.org/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xB8F1D88EBBF7433B  (IndyMedia https: clearnet keyserver)PGP Key: http://qtt2yl5jocgrk7nu.onion/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xB8F1D88EBBF7433B (IndyMedia .onion keyserver)PGP Key: http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=174.msg633090#msg633090  (Silk Road Forums PGP Key Link)PGP Key Fingerprint = 83F8 CAF8 7B73 C3C7 8D07 B66B AFC8 CE71 D9AF D2F0