On 10/18/15, Chris Bannister <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 09:26:16AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: >> I have an acer aspire 5003 notebook I tried installing the debian >> firmware >> distro on since it only has wifi communication capability for now. The >> firmware disk acted like it didn't have any firmware drivers on it when >> it >> got down to detecting the network. In reality I had a usb rt2780 wifi >> adapter connected to that laptop. >> When I used the debian firmware disk to install on the amd k8 athelon >> tower >> I have the installation worked. Post-install though I couldn't bring up >> the >> network at all. I'm using my tower now with talkingarch installed on it >> since I was able to use netctl and wifi-menu on talkingarch to bring the >> wifi network up and keep it working. I have done rather extensive web >> searching and haven't found anything that quite describes my experiences >> so >> far with debian and what to do post-install since dmesg on the tower >> claimed >> the network link wasn't ready. > > I'd suggest the debian-boot list.
You saying that made me realize it might be a good time to go back and remind myself what lists are available. For anyone else interested, they're found here: https://lists.debian.org/completeindex.html For newcomers to that feature, there's a *no pain*, one click accomplishes the task "Report as s p am* button on the right top corner of each message in case you find anything that slipped through filters. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *
