Hello again, Apologies for not setting the references field while composing a reply with the roundcube mailer.
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Appears the only difficulty was a 9 deb file in the 10 system. Retrieved and installed the right firmware-ath9k-htc from debian.org. https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi instructs "For basic command line usage: 1. iw ... 2. wireless-tools ... According to packages.debian.org/buster/all/net, iw is not available in the suite. Are instructions available to make WiFi work using the console in Debian 10? If not can someone please mention the required *.deb files. Thx, ... P.

