thanks for your suggestion. It showed the installer could not detect any network hard ware, neither ethernet nor wireless card :(.
Also many thanks to Andre, Cindy-Sue, Scott and Carlos for suggestions. Sofar I tried the unoffical cd installer: firmware-7.6.0-i386-netinst.iso. It did not work and showed again the same no detection of ethernet card :(. Shall I try unoffical Jessie? regards Fanghua > Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2014 11:25:43 +0200 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: debian wheezy does not support Atheros AR956x Wireless card > > On 09/06/2014 10:14 PM, fanghua ye wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > since many days I am dealing with installing debian wheezy on Acer > > Aspire E1-532. > > First I tried the Net installer, sadly the Atheros AR956x wireless card > > was not detected :(. > > I guess a driver is needed and found > > compat-wireless-3.6.6-1-snpc.tar.bz2 which seems to include a proper > > driver for the wireless card. > > Then I installed wheezy with debian-7.6.0-i386-DVD-1.iso. Later I > > realized I could not nistall the driver, since there is no connect to > > internet. > > I could also not use "make", since only base system was installed and it > > is impossible to install build-essential pakage due to the dependences > > of pakages :(. > > > > Does any body have experinces on it and any suggestions? > > Can you get access to the internet using the ethernet card of your laptop? > First try to add the contrib and non-free package collections to your > /etc/apt/sources.list configuration, then update and upgrade, restart > etc etc .... > > See https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html > > If adding the contrib and non-free package collections does n't help, > then you can try to switch from Wheezy to Jessie by editing > /etc/apt/sources.list, update, ... once again. > > Good luck! > Jan-Rens. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected] >
