On Monday 09 March 2015 05:45:27 PM Dave Horsfall wrote: > New to list, and thought I'd let Debian play with my other boxen, being > Amateur radio and all that, and it looks like it might be a neat > entertainment box with its large screen. > > I have a new Acer Aspire E15 that came pre-loaded with Billyware, and > after first checking it out with FreeBSD I upgraded it to Debian 7.7.0 > (although I see that 8 is now out). > > It sees neither the wireless nor the trackpad, although FreeBSD found them > (and I can't remember what they were); I'm told that this is because they > are proprietary devices; I wish I'd known that beforehand, but the laptop > was offered as a special deal. > > I perused the appropriate web page, but the Aspire E15 is not specifically > mentioned. Can I just barge ahead with one of them and see what happens, > or has someone already done this? > > Booting from the FreeBSD CD again, "moused" definitely sees the trackpad, > but it's not clear which device it is; I'm seeing (abbreviated): > > ums1: <vendor 0x06cb product 0x2970 [...] on usbus2> > ... > ums1: 2 buttons and [XY] coordinates ID=2 > > which I presume is the trackpad (the USB optical mouse is seen), and > > ugen1.4: <Chicony Electronics Co.,Ltd.> at usbus1 > > which I believe is the camera (Debian sees it too). Hmmm... No sign of > the wireless here, either. Have I bought myself a brick, suitable only > for Billyware? > > Thanks.
I have Aspire E1-571G, with that damnable Atheros AR9462 Wireless Network Adapter. Driver in use is ath9k, and both in Debian 7 and linux mint 15 before it, only permanent solution was newish kernel. In case of Debian 7, that was kernel from backports. Did not need installation of firmware. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
