On Tuesday, 10 Mar 2015 at 03:45, Dave Horsfall wrote:

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> It sees neither the wireless nor the trackpad, although FreeBSD found them 
> (and I can't remember what they were); I'm told that this is because they 
> are proprietary devices; I wish I'd known that beforehand, but the laptop 
> was offered as a special deal.

You may need to install firmware from the non-free Debian
repository.  For instance, on my Dell laptop, I needed to install
firmware-iwlwifi to get the WiFi working.

What does 'lspci -v' show as output?

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