Re: Is anybody Running Debian on Acer Aspire E5-571G
On Fri, 15 Jan 2016, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> I ran a netinst installation so no didn't have the nonfree rt2800
> package earlier. Anyone know which debian dvd that package lives
> on? I may be able to install debian with the first dvd and whatever
> number that other dvd is in future.
You're probably going to have to install using a wired Ethernet
connection, then set up wireless. This is what I had to do a few years
ago to install Debian on a Thinkpad 240X that had NO wireless at all,
only dialup and Ethernet.
I used the first install CD (not the Netinstall one) to do a basic
terminal only install, then configured the apt sources.list to install
everything else including what was needed for the external PCMCIA
wireless card. I had to compile the driver from source.
FWIW, I always use wired Ethernet when installing on a laptop whether it
has wireless or not. Less problematical.
B
> On Fri, 15 Jan 2016, Selim T. Erdo?an wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 18:08:56
> > From: Selim T. Erdo?an <selim@alumni.cs.utexas.edu>
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: Is anybody Running Debian on Acer Aspire E5-571G
> > Resent-Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 23:09:21 +0000 (UTC)
> > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 09:40:53PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> >> I tried running it on an acer aspire 5003 notebook and it worked
> >> okay until trying to configure my network with my rt2800usb wifi
> >> adapter. If I get a wifi extender I can plug ethernet into I'll
> >> try again it may work then.
> >
> > For rt2800usb, was the firmware-ralink package installed (from
> > non-free)?
> >
> >
>
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