Re: Debian on Acer Aspire E15
On Monday 09 March 2015 05:45:27 PM Dave Horsfall wrote:
> New to list, and thought I'd let Debian play with my other boxen,
being
> Amateur radio and all that, and it looks like it might be a neat
> entertainment box with its large screen.
>
> I have a new Acer Aspire E15 that came pre-loaded with Billyware,
and
> after first checking it out with FreeBSD I upgraded it to Debian 7.7.0
> (although I see that 8 is now out).
>
> It sees neither the wireless nor the trackpad, although FreeBSD
found them
> (and I can't remember what they were); I'm told that this is because
they
> are proprietary devices; I wish I'd known that beforehand, but the
laptop
> was offered as a special deal.
>
> I perused the appropriate web page, but the Aspire E15 is not
specifically
> mentioned. Can I just barge ahead with one of them and see what
happens,
> or has someone already done this?
>
> Booting from the FreeBSD CD again, "moused" definitely sees the
trackpad,
> but it's not clear which device it is; I'm seeing (abbreviated):
>
> ums1: <vendor 0x06cb product 0x2970 [...] on usbus2>
> ...
> ums1: 2 buttons and [XY] coordinates ID=2
>
> which I presume is the trackpad (the USB optical mouse is seen),
and
>
> ugen1.4: <Chicony Electronics Co.,Ltd.> at usbus1
>
> which I believe is the camera (Debian sees it too). Hmmm... No
sign of
> the wireless here, either. Have I bought myself a brick, suitable only
> for Billyware?
>
> Thanks.
I have Aspire E1-571G, with that damnable Atheros AR9462 Wireless
Network Adapter. Driver in use is ath9k, and both in Debian 7 and
linux mint 15 before it, only permanent solution was newish kernel. In
case of Debian 7, that was kernel from backports. Did not need
installation of firmware.
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