On Mon, 9 Mar 2015, Ross Gallup wrote: > Admittedly I'm running Debian 7 (wheezy), but the here's the result of > searching for firmware-atheros:
I'm running it too. > It seems to be a valid package, but not that it's non-free. You must > have a line in /etc/apt/sources.list that includes non-free such as the > following: > > deb http://ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu/linux/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free > > non-free is the important part. The actual mirror you use doesn't > really matter. root@debbie:/home/dave# grep non-free /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main non-free root@debbie:/home/dave# apt-get install firmware-atheros Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package firmware-atheros Hmmm... root@debbie:/home/dave# apt-cache policy firmware-atheros N: Unable to locate package firmware-atheros OK, let's try your example... Nope :-( -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Bliss is a MacBook with a FreeBSD server." http://www.horsfall.org/spam.html (and check the home page whilst you're there)
