Re: Installing Debian 9

2018-03-30 Thread Rick Thomas
> On 2018-03-24 00:34, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: >> On 24/03/18 10:20,   wrote: >>> Hello, I am trying to install Debian 9 as a primary OS on an Acer Aspire 5 >>> Laptop. During the installation process I get a message stating; “Debian 9 >>> Detect network hardware Some of your hardware needs

Re: Installing Debian 9

2018-03-30 Thread Stefan Rhodin
Hi. What I do is add "contrib non-free" on every line after the word main in /etc/apt/sources.list. Minus the " " of course. Then I type apt update and let it run its course. Then type apt install firmware-linux-nonfree and reboot. That should take care of it hopefully. On 2018-03-24

Re: Installing Debian 9

2018-03-23 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 24/03/18 10:20,   wrote: Hello, I am trying to install Debian 9 as a primary OS on an Acer Aspire 5 Laptop. During the installation process I get a message stating; “Debian 9 Detect network hardware Some of your hardware needs non-free firmware files to operate. The firmware can be

Re: Installing Debian 9

2018-03-23 Thread Forest
On Fri, 2018-03-23 at 16:20 -0500,   wrote: > Hello, I am trying to install Debian 9 as a primary OS on an Acer > Aspire 5 Laptop. During the installation process I get a message > stating; “Debian 9 Detect network hardware Some of your hardware > needs non-free firmware files to operate. The

Installing Debian 9

2018-03-23 Thread  
Hello, I am trying to install Debian 9 as a primary OS on an Acer Aspire 5 Laptop. During the installation process I get a message stating; “Debian 9 Detect network hardware Some of your hardware needs non-free firmware files to operate. The firmware can be loaded from removable media, such as