On Sun 19 Mar 2017 at 13:33:14 -0700, Dean Valentine wrote: > Hi, I was having trouble contacting the mailing list on my other thread, so > I just started a new one.
Sorry to heae that. We wondered where you were and passed the time discussing the usefulness of reading and the place of documentation. > I have attempted to use both the live-iso and netinst iso with bundled > non-free drivers, but Debian still can't detect/load my wifi. To rehash, > > 1. I use an Acer Aspire S laptop. > 2. The error looks like this: > https://puu.sh/uQsLL/2661cdaa7c.jpg > 3. My lspci output looks like this: > https://puu.sh/uQsUJ/ff0045aa59.jpg > 4. Here's dmesg grepped for "driver" and "ath": > https://puu.sh/uQt0l/a321614cd6.jpg > > I don't know what to do. Other operating systems manage to find and use my > wifi, but Debian is different, even using its proprietary-firmware-bundled > ISO. You have an Atheros 10k device. The Jessie installer was put together before firmware was available to it. Complete the install and read https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/03/msg00631.html Or vice-versa. What you need to do is not that hard. Ask again if unsure of a way forward. -- Brian.
