Need help installing NIC driver manually on CrunchBang

I have the driver tar.gz but no idea how to install it

device has no internet access 

The #! and Debian forums all have different solutions on how to do this but they all assume the reader has prior terminal knowledge and I can't get them to work. Halp pls.

Can I just do this through the GUI somehow?

Anyone here? Kind of urgent. Need to do schoolwork

I gave up. Installing Manjaro Openbox instead. Still confused as to why CrunchBang doesn't have out-of-the-box LAN support.

Well you'd probably would have needed build-essential. Then a "./configure", "make", and "sudo make install" probably would have done it. Then just load the module.

I tried that and apparently I needed all sorts of files that I can't get unless I downloaded them one by one on a separate machine in order to use those commands. Plus the only instructions I could were very confusing. I'm going to try it in a VM tomorrow, and if I can get it to work I'll put #! on bare metal. I just really love the GUI and lightness of #!.

Hmmm... yeah... I'd rather hang myself than hunt down all the files needed to install build-essentials offline. 

No wonder no one uses Linux, let's be honest to ourselves here. If someone who knows somewhat what they are doing can't get a fairly mainstream distro running, how are everyday people going to do this?

I'm going to have an aneurysm. I can't use any Debian based distro, and they all happen to be my favorites. Fuck me!

Why can't you use Debian?

My NIC is not supported by the Debian kernel out of the box apparently. And for a new Linux user it is practically impossible to install them offline. I'd have to hunt down literally about one hundred "build-essential" packages before I can install the NIC driver.

If Manjaro XFCE gives me any issues tomorrow I'm going to pirate Win8.1, and then probably hang myself.

Use opensuse or Debian in Sid (testing software)

Tomorrow after school I'm going to see if I can manage to get #! running properly with internet connection in a VM. If so I'll install it on my machine. I've been fucking with this all day and have gotten nothing done. Just frustrated at this point. It's just that lack of Intel NIC support on Debian is from what I've seen a common issue with a workaround being akin to something like dragging your balls across broken glass.

I have never had an issue with Intel NICs but Qualcomm is the one that is a pain in the ass for me.

Crunchbang is based on Debian 7, so it would not matter either way, his NIC wouldnt be supported by default.

Simple thing to do, find out the name of the NIC, then use another computer to research how to install it into the system, if you can, use the RJ45 (Modem Drivers) and then update the kernel to 3.17 or 3.16.

Problem is with Debian, its super out dated, and unless you can control it your a bit stuck, but more than likely if you have an ethernet it should work, if not get a USB - RJ45 lead, should work this way.

Also I would recommend OpenSUSE 13.2 or Fedora 20 for your needs, they work super well, OpenSUSE has the brilliant Yast and 1Click-installer, easy driver install from firefox and OBS.

Fedora is a bleeding edge distro that works well for production environments, a bit more complicated than Suse, but not difficult, both of these should have the drivers you need by default as they run the latest kernels.

I'm just going to use Manjaro for now, even though there are some Debian based distros I really want to use. To be honest the GUI being minimal and visually consistent is a biggie for me. Performance is a thing but it isn't really a huge deal. I just really like Openbox on CrunchBang, and for some reason it the OpenBox version of Manjaro looks something like an anal cavity that's been hiding on the internet since the golden days on Windows XP. I'm running Manjaro XFCE now, XFCE looks ok, but I'm not completely happy with the appearance.

Also I can't even slow my mouse down without the cursor glitching the fuck out. I'm used to 400 DPI and 0 acceleration in Windows. My mouse is like 10x as fast now, no exaggeration.

Could I use a USB wireless NIC to connect to the internet on a Debian based distro and then install build essentials --> install my integrated NIC drivers?

You have to think of it this way, Debians primary use is servers, not desktops or workstations, the software is too out dated for things, for school you need a mix of stability and bleeding edge, Also do not worry about the distro been minimal on visuals, you can do that with any distro, remember the distro is just a base for things you want, you make a completely unique workstation that suites your workflow, experiment.

Also yes, Linux does use full mouse acceleration by default, you get used to it soon, if you have DPI controller on your mouse then do use that, if its a trackpad you need to go into configuration on Manjaro and turn down speed.

As for your USB Nic, that could work, as long as it uses a standard USB driver it will work.

Also there is a Manjaro OpenBox edition, not to my taste but maybe to yours.