Hi Fanghua!
Can you please tell me if you have a computer nearby where your notebook
currently is that has Internet connection (by observing the fact that
you download and also send mails I presume you have)? Your problem is
only in your wireless from what I can tell based on your message. This
means that your Ethernet LAN port is working. If so, you can easily
establish a bridged connection between your notebook and the computer
that is connected to the Internet thus being able to share the
connection. It takes a matter of a couple of clicks to get it up and
running. I have a workstation at home that I don't want to connect to
the Internet all the time and I use my notebook to redirect my Internet
connection (router<->wireless adapter on notebook) to it via an Ethernet
cable. You can do exactly the same and then you should be able to
download all dependencies. If you have Internet access somewhere else
but for some reason you cannot share the connection (work, school, too
far away etc.), Debian provides DVDs with packages that you can use as
an offline source for resolving missing dependencies.
Regards,
Aleksandar
PS: In the future ALWAYS try a live version of Debian or whatever
distribution you want to install (if live version is provided) before
going straight for the final installation. Although from my experience
live version and the installed one differ when it comes to things
working or not (in Debian Wheezy live version for example on my Sony
Vaio VPCEB3M1E none of my AltGr keys were working yet after the
installation most of those worked), it is much better then falling into
a pit such as this one you are currently in. And it is definitely more
accurate then a virtual machine, where hardware (which is culprit number
1 for most problems on notebooks) is de facto not the real one on the host.
On 09/07/2014 03:07 PM, fanghua ye wrote:
Dear guys,
I tested again with firmware-jessie-DI-b1-i386-netinst.iso and
firmware-testing-i386-netinst.iso, now both ethernet and wireless card are
detected :). I was so excited. The direction is right to use non-free installer.
When I entered my correct password but after a while the error
message I got is
"The exchange of keys and association with the access point
failed. Please check the WPA/WPA2 parameters you provided." :(.
I could download a additional Atheros driver, but without internet connection
it could not be installed due to pakage dependency.
In google I have more or less learned there is still something missing in
installer, maybe it is a bug?
Hopefully someone could consider this issue and I am looking much forward and
waiting for new version released.
Thanks again all guys, I feel realy warm here :).
Fanghua
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2014 13:48:49 +0200
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: debian wheezy does not support Atheros AR956x Wireless card
On 09/07/2014 12:21 PM, fanghua ye wrote:
By the way, I remember the laptop was equiped with Win 7.
Win 7 or 8 is installed on most x86 computers because they wound n't be
sold without an OS.
Wheezy was successfully installed in Virtualbox with official netinstaller.
Now Win 7 is completely removed and it is surposed to install a pure
Linux system.
I do not know why the installer is not able to detect any network hardwares.
I guess that the wheezy kernel does n't support the latest versions of
the atheros hardware because it is too old. You can download atheros
drivers from:
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/Atheros
The current jessie kernel version is 3.14-2-amd64.
Do these two installation have any differences?
cheers
Fanghua
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