On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 09:26:16AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I have an acer aspire 5003 notebook I tried installing the debian firmware > distro on since it only has wifi communication capability for now. The > firmware disk acted like it didn't have any firmware drivers on it when it > got down to detecting the network. In reality I had a usb rt2780 wifi > adapter connected to that laptop. > When I used the debian firmware disk to install on the amd k8 athelon tower > I have the installation worked. Post-install though I couldn't bring up the > network at all. I'm using my tower now with talkingarch installed on it > since I was able to use netctl and wifi-menu on talkingarch to bring the > wifi network up and keep it working. I have done rather extensive web > searching and haven't found anything that quite describes my experiences so > far with debian and what to do post-install since dmesg on the tower claimed > the network link wasn't ready.
I'd suggest the debian-boot list. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X
