Re: Ati Radeon HD 7850 Problem on Debian 7 Stable

[Joel Roth <joelz@pobox.com>]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 07:49:51PM -0500, João Luís Correia de Medeiros wrote:
> Dear sir or madam,
> Same thing goes for my wireless card (I was unfortunate enough to get a realtek chip, it's an RTL8192 ), I install firmware-realtek from Debian ( And firmware-Linux-nonfree ) hoping it's all I need to get it up and running, but doing so, makes my ETH0 not respond to DHCP at all (I'm guessing it also needs a firmware blob to work, and is somehow being given the wrong one? )

Dear JM,

According to lspci, I have RTL8191SEvB Wireless LAN
Controller.  I've been using the rtlwifi and rtl8192se
drivers for years, with firmware-realtek.  The drivers are
not the greatest, but they don't interfere with eth0. 

I think the DHCP issue you have may be a different problem.

Regards,
 
> Any help is appreciated! 
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> JM
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Joel Roth