Re: debian wheezy does not support Atheros AR956x Wireless card‏

2014-09-07 Thread David Moscrip
Gerard ROBIN wrote: >On Sun, Sep 07, 2014 at 01:07:02PM +, fanghua ye wrote: >> Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2014 13:07:02 + >> From: fanghua ye >> To: Jan-Rens Reitsma >> CC: "debian-laptop@lists.debian.org" >> Subject: RE: debian wheezy does not support Atheros AR956x Wireless card‏ > > >> Wh

Re: debian wheezy does not support Atheros AR956x Wireless card‏

2014-09-07 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 07.09.14 10:21, fanghua ye wrote: Subject: debian wheezy does not support Atheros AR956x Wireless card‏ I have solved this by upgrading to kernel in wheezy-backports. -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, uh...@fantomas.sk ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to

Re: debian wheezy does not support Atheros AR956x Wireless card‏

2014-09-07 Thread Gerard ROBIN
On Sun, Sep 07, 2014 at 01:07:02PM +, fanghua ye wrote: > Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2014 13:07:02 + > From: fanghua ye > To: Jan-Rens Reitsma > CC: "debian-laptop@lists.debian.org" > Subject: RE: debian wheezy does not support Atheros AR956x Wireless card‏ > When I entered my correct password

Re: debian wheezy does not support Atheros AR956x Wireless card‏

2014-09-07 Thread Aleksandar Atanasov
Hi Fanghua! Can you please tell me if you have a computer nearby where your notebook currently is that has Internet connection (by observing the fact that you download and also send mails I presume you have)? Your problem is only in your wireless from what I can tell based on your message. Thi

RE: debian wheezy does not support Atheros AR956x Wireless card‏

2014-09-07 Thread fanghua ye
Dear guys, I tested again with firmware-jessie-DI-b1-i386-netinst.iso and firmware-testing-i386-netinst.iso, now both ethernet and wireless card are detected :). I was so excited. The direction is right to use non-free installer. When I entered my correct password but after a while the error me

Re: debian wheezy does not support Atheros AR956x Wireless card

2014-09-07 Thread Jan-Rens Reitsma
On 09/07/2014 12:02 PM, fanghua ye wrote: > thanks for your suggestion. > It showed the installer could not detect any network hard ware, neither > ethernet nor wireless card :(. > > Also many thanks to Andre, Cindy-Sue, Scott and Carlos for suggestions. > Sofar I tried the unoffical cd installer

Re: debian wheezy does not support Atheros AR956x Wireless card‏

2014-09-07 Thread Jan-Rens Reitsma
On 09/07/2014 12:21 PM, fanghua ye wrote: By the way, I remember the laptop was equiped with Win 7. Win 7 or 8 is installed on most x86 computers because they wound n't be sold without an OS. Wheezy was successfully installed in Virtualbox with official netinstaller. Now Win 7 is completely

debian wheezy does not support Atheros AR956x Wireless card‏

2014-09-07 Thread fanghua ye
By the way, I remember the laptop was equiped with Win 7. Wheezy was successfully installed in Virtualbox with official netinstaller. Now Win 7 is completely removed and it is surposed to install a pure Linux system. I do not know why the installer is not able to detect any network hardwares. Do

RE: debian wheezy does not support Atheros AR956x Wireless card

2014-09-07 Thread fanghua ye
thanks for your suggestion. It showed the installer could not detect any network hard ware, neither ethernet nor wireless card :(. Also many thanks to Andre, Cindy-Sue, Scott and Carlos for suggestions. Sofar I tried the unoffical cd installer: firmware-7.6.0-i386-netinst.iso. It did not work a

Re: debian wheezy does not support Atheros AR956x Wireless card

2014-09-07 Thread Jan-Rens Reitsma
On 09/06/2014 10:14 PM, fanghua ye wrote: > Hello all, > > since many days I am dealing with installing debian wheezy on Acer > Aspire E1-532. > First I tried the Net installer, sadly the Atheros AR956x wireless card > was not detected :(. > I guess a driver is needed and found > compat-wireles