On Tue, 10 Mar 2015, Geoff Simmons wrote: > For device support on your Wheezy system, you would need to install and > use a backported Linux kernel available from the wheezy-backports > repository.
OK, I've got back to this again, and I now understand about the need for backports etc. Silly question: exactly how do I use "aptitude" to download and install firmware-atheros_0.43~bpo70+1_all.deb? Assume that I'm new to Linux. /etc/apt/sources.list: # backports for prop. stuff deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian wheezy-backports main non-free What I tried: root@debbie:/home/dave# aptitude install firmware-atheros_0.43~bpo70+1_all.deb No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. root@debbie:/home/dave# aptitude install firmware-atheros_0.43~bpo70+1_all And again without the .deb suffix: No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. root@debbie:/home/dave# What am I not doing? PS: After I get this going, I can untether the thing from the Ethernet, and then work on the proprietary trackpad, the proprietary brightness, and the proprietary video... PPS: FreeBSD sees the Atheros wireless, but NetBSD doesn't; odd. Thanks. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." http://www.horsfall.org/spam.html (and check the home page whilst you're there) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
