Re: Filing a bug report via Windows?
The Wednesday 30 January 2013 16:03:51, Jack Wilborn wrote :
> Hello,
>
> I have a bug that needs to be reported, unfortunately I only have a
> Windows 8 machine connected to the Internet. I originally tried to
> use an older Mac G5 but became so frustrated with getting on-line
that
> I finally purchased a complete 386 type machine to run Linux only.
> The truth ended up that I couldn't get on-line with that machine
> either. I have a Qualcomm Atheros AR938X chip-set on a TP-Link
> TL-WDN4800 WiFi PCI card.
>
> When I install Debian 6.0 on my machine it does not detect this
card,
> but is detected when I run "lspci" from the command line within
Debian
> after the install. I don't know how to properly report this bug. I
> picked this card because others have stated they run this card
under
> the same version of Debian and it works properly. I don't know what
> else to do but report a bug or how to manually install the proper
> drivers to support this card. This would also make it possible to
> connect to the Internet and solve many problems. As I have an
iPhone
> 4, that works properly via a USB port on Windows 8, causes a Kernel
> fault on the same machine under Linux with all the proper drivers.
> Also the Atheros driver appears to be on my machine, but not
loaded.
>
> Any help would be wonderful.
>
> Thanks
>
> Jack K. Wilborn
Have you installed firmware-linux-nonfree?
Thierry
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