Thanks for your help. Responses to your suggestions are given below. Ben Finney: Detect network hardware. Some of your hardware needs non-free firmware files to operate. The firmware can be loaded from removable media, such as a USB stick or floppy. The missing firmware files are: b43/ucode15.fw b43/ucode15.fw b43-open/ucode15.fw b43-open/ucode15.fw If you have such media available now, insert it, and continue. Load missing firmware from removable media? NO Yes
Santiago Vila: not quite sure what I am looking for in /var/log. Doing a ls on that directory gives the following: root@mylaptop:/var/log# ls alternatives.log cups dpkg.log fontconfig.log kern.log popularity-contest syslog user.log apt daemon.log exim4 fsck lastlog popularity-contest.0 syslog.1 wtmp auth.log debug faillog hp lightdm popularity-contest.gpg syslog.2.gz Xorg.0.log btmp dmesg firebird installer messages speech-dispatcher syslog.3.gz Xorg.0.log.old Yvan Masson: I got the following: root@mylaptop:~# dmesg | grep firmware [ 17.356396] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: failed to load b43/ucode15.fw (-2) [ 17.356487] b43 ssb0:0: Direct firmware load failed with error -2 [ 17.357131] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: failed to load b43/ucode15.fw (-2) [ 17.357219] b43 ssb0:0: Direct firmware load failed with error -2 [ 17.357980] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: failed to load b43-open/ucode15.fw (-2) [ 17.358072] b43 ssb0:0: Direct firmware load failed with error -2 [ 17.358674] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: failed to load b43-open/ucode15.fw (-2) [ 17.358766] b43 ssb0:0: Direct firmware load failed with error -2 [ 17.359404] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to http://wireless.kernel.org/en/ users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the correct firmware for this driver version. Please carefully read all instructions on this website. Henrique de Moraes... root@mylaptop:~# lspci 00:00.0 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Memory Controller (rev a2) 00:01.0 ISA bridge: NVIDIA Corporation Device 075e (rev a2) 00:01.1 SMBus: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] SMBus (rev a1) 00:01.3 Co-processor: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Co-Processor (rev a2) 00:01.4 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Memory Controller (rev a1) 00:02.0 USB controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a1) 00:02.1 USB controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev a1) 00:04.0 USB controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a1) 00:04.1 USB controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev a1) 00:07.0 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation MCP72XE/MCP72P/MCP78U/MCP78S High Definition Audio (rev a1) 00:08.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Bridge (rev a1) 00:09.0 SATA controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 0ad5 (rev a2) 00:0b.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Express Bridge (rev a1) 00:13.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Bridge (rev a1) 00:14.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Bridge (rev a1) 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 11h Processor HyperTransport Configuration (rev 40) 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 11h Processor Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 11h Processor DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 11h Processor Miscellaneous Control 00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 11h Processor Link Control 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation C77 [GeForce 9100M G] (rev a2) 08:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01) 09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5764M Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 10) root@mylaptop:~# cat "/proc/cpuinfo" processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 17 model : 3 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) X2 Dual-Core QL-62 stepping : 1 microcode : 0x2000032 cpu MHz : 1000.000 cache size : 512 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy 3dnowprefetch osvw skinit hw_pstate lbrv svm_lock nrip_save vmmcall bogomips : 3999.64 TLB size : 1024 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate processor : 1 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 17 model : 3 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) X2 Dual-Core QL-62 stepping : 1 microcode : 0x2000032 cpu MHz : 2000.000 cache size : 512 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 1 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 1 initial apicid : 1 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy 3dnowprefetch osvw skinit hw_pstate lbrv svm_lock nrip_save vmmcall bogomips : 3999.64 TLB size : 1024 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate root@mylaptop:~# cat /var/log cat: /var/log: Is a directory root@mylaptop:~# cd var -su: cd: var: No such file or directory root@mylaptop:~# ls root@mylaptop:~# pwd /root root@mylaptop:~# cd / root@mylaptop:/# ls bin boot dev etc home initrd.img lib lib64 lost+found media mnt opt proc root run sbin srv sys tmp usr var vmlinuz root@mylaptop:/# cd var root@mylaptop:/var# ls backups cache lib local lock log mail opt run spool tmp root@mylaptop:/var# cd log root@mylaptop:/var/log# ls alternatives.log cups dpkg.log fontconfig.log kern.log popularity-contest syslog user.log apt daemon.log exim4 fsck lastlog popularity-contest.0 syslog.1 wtmp auth.log debug faillog hp lightdm popularity-contest.gpg syslog.2.gz Xorg.0.log btmp dmesg firebird installer messages speech-dispatcher syslog.3.gz Xorg.0.log.old On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 10:08 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <h...@debian.org > wrote: > On Wed, 07 Dec 2016, Steve Greig wrote: > > When I installed debian I got a message saying my computer (emachines > > laptop AMD Athlon X2 64bit) needed some non-free software. The names of > the > > The output of "lspci" and cat "/proc/cpuinfo" would tell us a lot more. > > I don't recall the name of the hardware detection suite used by the > installer right now, but someone else hopefully will and will reply with > that information to this thread :-) > > -- > Henrique Holschuh > >
