Re: Debian on Acer Aspire E15
Dave,
aptitude install firmware-atheros
or
apt-get install firmware-atheros
will choose the most recent version available. If that is not what you need, then it's probably easier to use aptitude as a interactive application (start without any option) and do the downgrade manually - with aptitude, any dependency conflicts can be resolved automatically or manually, the latter is lots useful with backports.
It would require to learn the aptitude key navigation, but it's worth it.
For a quick shot you can try to download the package file (firmware-atheros_0.43~bpo70+1_all.deb) and install it with dpkg:
dpkg -i firmware-atheros_0.43~bpo70+1_all.deb
but if i recall right, this would not solve any dependency conflicts automagically, it only warns you and aborts. Make sure that general updates do not upgrade the package version too (you may put a file into /etc/apt/öpreferences.d). With aptitude, set the package to 'hold' (h).
(i didn't use backports or downgrades in ages, sorry can't be more specific)
(plus i'm on archlinux right now, can't lookup things easily)
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