Re: debian wheezy does not support Atheros AR956x Wireless card
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-wireless-3.6.6-1-snpc.tar.bz2 which seems to include a proper
> driver for the wireless card.
> Then I installed wheezy with debian-7.6.0-i386-DVD-1.iso. Later I
> realized I could not nistall the driver, since there is no connect to
> internet.
> I could also not use "make", since only base system was installed and it
> is impossible to install build-essential pakage due to the dependences
> of pakages :(.
>
> Does any body have experinces on it and any suggestions?
Can you get access to the internet using the ethernet card of your laptop?
First try to add the contrib and non-free package collections to your
/etc/apt/sources.list configuration, then update and upgrade, restart
etc etc ....
See https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html
If adding the contrib and non-free package collections does n't help,
then you can try to switch from Wheezy to Jessie by editing
/etc/apt/sources.list, update, ... once again.
Good luck!
Jan-Rens.
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