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Re: How to install firmware-linux-nonfree



Am 12.07.2017 um 03:44 schrieb Dave Horsfall:
> On Wed, 12 Jul 2017, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>
>> Acer Aspire E15, running Jessie (latest).
>>
>> At boot, it bleats: "drm:radeon_pci_probe] *ERROR* radeon kernel 
>> modesetting for R600 or later requires firmware-linux-nonfree" so I 
>> installed it with "apt-get install ...", but it made no difference.  
>> What else needs to be done?
> Odd...  I repeated the command, and this time it worked.  I hate that, as 
> it didn't actually identify the problem.
>
>> Also, the WiFi does not work on 5GHz; is there an update for that?
> The 802.11b/g/n still doesn't see my 5GHz AP (but my obsolete MacBook 
> does).

802.11bgn is only 2,4ghz, for 5ghz you would 802.11abgn or 802.11ac

greetings

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