Sven Bartscher <sven.bartscher@weltraumschlangen.de> (2014-08-19): > On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:49:42 -0600 > Ryan Burchett <yurofspring@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello! My apologies if this is the wrong email to contact for my issue. > > debian-user@lists.debian.org would have been better. > > > I would absolutely love to use Debian. I cannot do this however. The problem > > I am having is that you guys do not support my Wireless card. I went to the > > wiki and the wireless section and saw my wireless card on the list of > > supported cards, but I can't get any internet on my computer. I would just > > like if you guys could give support to the wireless card for the Asus X401U > > laptop. When I run it in a live CD, the command "lspci" reads back: > > > > *Network controller: Ralink corp. RT5390 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe* > > You card is in fact already supported. The problem is, that the needed > firmware to run it is not available during the installation. > > The only way I know around this is using a non-official installation > image, with non-free firmware included. You can find them on > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/current/. > So if you have AMD64 you would need to use > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/current/amd64/iso-cd/firmware-7.6.0-amd64-netinst.iso. See the installation manual: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch02s02.html Beware, this feature is currently (known-)broken for the Jessie Alpha and Beta installers. Fixes are work in progress, though. Mraw, KiBi.
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