Re: Debian on Acer Aspire E15
On Mon, 9 Mar 2015, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> You may need to install firmware from the non-free Debian repository.
> For instance, on my Dell laptop, I needed to install firmware-iwlwifi to
> get the WiFi working.
I need to get the WiFi working (it's currently tethered, which sort of
defeats the purpose), but I don't care about the trackpad because I prefer
to use a mouse.
> What does 'lspci -v' show as output?
Summarised:
02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
Subsystem: Lite-On Communications Inc Device 0642
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 3
Memory at f0a00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
Expansion ROM at f0e00000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/4 Maskable+ 64bit+
Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
So it's an Atheros chip.
And "ifconfig -a":
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr f8:a9:63:75:0d:eb
inet addr:10.0.0.9 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::faa9:63ff:fe75:deb/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:136 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:47 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:8981 (8.7 KiB) TX bytes:8836 (8.6 KiB)
Interrupt:74 Base address:0xa000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:480 (480.0 B) TX bytes:480 (480.0 B)
No wireless interface.
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