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Re: what list to umail for this bug?



On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 09:26:16AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> I have an acer aspire 5003 notebook I tried installing the debian firmware
> distro on since it only has wifi communication capability for now.  The
> firmware disk acted like it didn't have any firmware drivers on it when it
> got down to detecting the network.  In reality I had a usb rt2780 wifi
> adapter connected to that laptop.
> When I used the debian firmware disk to install on the amd k8 athelon tower
> I have the installation worked.  Post-install though I couldn't bring up the
> network at all.  I'm using my tower now with talkingarch installed on it
> since I was able to use netctl and wifi-menu on talkingarch to bring the
> wifi network up and keep it working.  I have done rather extensive web
> searching and haven't found anything that quite describes my experiences so
> far with debian and what to do post-install since dmesg on the tower claimed
> the network link wasn't ready.

I'd suggest the debian-boot list.

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