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  Wifi Drivers still not recognized by Debian, even when using Netinst Dean Valentine <deanvalentine@lhsla.org> - 2017-03-19 22:00 +0100
    Re: Wifi Drivers still not recognized by Debian, even when using  Netinst Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-20 01:00 +0100
      Re: Re: Wifi Drivers still not recognized by Debian, even when using  Netinst Dean <deanvalentine@lhsla.org> - 2017-03-20 02:10 +0100
        Re: Re: Wifi Drivers still not recognized by Debian, even when using  Netinst Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-20 21:20 +0100
    Re: Wifi Drivers still not recognized by Debian, even when using  Netinst GiaThnYgeia <GiaThnYgeia@openmailbox.org> - 2017-03-20 01:00 +0100

#179018 — Wifi Drivers still not recognized by Debian, even when using Netinst

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Hi, I was having trouble contacting the mailing list on my other thread, so
I just started a new one.

I have attempted to use both the live-iso and netinst iso with bundled
non-free drivers, but Debian still can't detect/load my wifi. To rehash,

1. I use an Acer Aspire S laptop.
2. The error looks like this:
https://puu.sh/uQsLL/2661cdaa7c.jpg
3. My lspci output looks like this:
https://puu.sh/uQsUJ/ff0045aa59.jpg
4. Here's dmesg grepped for "driver" and "ath":
https://puu.sh/uQt0l/a321614cd6.jpg

I don't know what to do. Other operating systems manage to find and use my
wifi, but Debian is different, even using its proprietary-firmware-bundled
ISO.

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#179019 — Re: Wifi Drivers still not recognized by Debian, even when using Netinst

On Sun 19 Mar 2017 at 13:33:14 -0700, Dean Valentine wrote:

> Hi, I was having trouble contacting the mailing list on my other thread, so
> I just started a new one.

Sorry to heae that. We wondered where you were and passed the time
discussing the usefulness of reading and the place of documentation.
 
> I have attempted to use both the live-iso and netinst iso with bundled
> non-free drivers, but Debian still can't detect/load my wifi. To rehash,
> 
> 1. I use an Acer Aspire S laptop.
> 2. The error looks like this:
> https://puu.sh/uQsLL/2661cdaa7c.jpg
> 3. My lspci output looks like this:
> https://puu.sh/uQsUJ/ff0045aa59.jpg
> 4. Here's dmesg grepped for "driver" and "ath":
> https://puu.sh/uQt0l/a321614cd6.jpg
> 
> I don't know what to do. Other operating systems manage to find and use my
> wifi, but Debian is different, even using its proprietary-firmware-bundled
> ISO.

You have an Atheros 10k device. The Jessie installer was put together
before firmware was available to it. Complete the install and read

https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/03/msg00631.html

Or vice-versa. What you need to do is not that hard.  Ask again if
unsure of a way forward.

-- 
Brian.

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#179023 — Re: Re: Wifi Drivers still not recognized by Debian, even when using Netinst

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Thank you for your guys' help. I assumed that meant I had to download 
and install the packages manually after installing through the live CD 
and went that route.

While trying to install Debian again, I have run into another possibly 
unrelated problem. After going through most of the install procedure, I 
get an error message while trying to install the boot loader:

"Executing grub-install failed"
"This is a fatal error"

Where can I access error logs that tell me what actually happened, 
because this is really vague and I don't know what I'm supposed to do 
with this. The drive was wiped during the partitioning process and I 
have no operating systems on the laptop (although I have tried to 
install Debian multiple times at this point).

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#179052 — Re: Re: Wifi Drivers still not recognized by Debian, even when using Netinst

On Sun 19 Mar 2017 at 17:50:50 -0700, Dean wrote:

> Thank you for your guys' help. I assumed that meant I had to download and
> install the packages manually after installing through the live CD and went
> that route.

More or less. You only need firmware-atheros. You can get it through
activating the backports archive (believe it or believe it not, there
is a wiki page on this) or by downloading the package and installing
it with 'dpkg -i'.

> While trying to install Debian again, I have run into another possibly
> unrelated problem. After going through most of the install procedure, I get
> an error message while trying to install the boot loader:
> 
> "Executing grub-install failed"
> "This is a fatal error"

Only related in that your hardware might be not be handled by a Jessie
installer very gracefully.

> Where can I access error logs that tell me what actually happened, because
> this is really vague and I don't know what I'm supposed to do with this. The
> drive was wiped during the partitioning process and I have no operating
> systems on the laptop (although I have tried to install Debian multiple
> times at this point).

Switch to a console with ALT-F2. 'more /var/log/syslog'.

-- 
Brian.

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#179020 — Re: Wifi Drivers still not recognized by Debian, even when using Netinst

Dean Valentine:
> Hi, I was having trouble contacting the mailing list on my other thread, so
> I just started a new one.
> 
> I have attempted to use both the live-iso and netinst iso with bundled
> non-free drivers, but Debian still can't detect/load my wifi. To rehash,
> 
> 1. I use an Acer Aspire S laptop.
> 2. The error looks like this:
> https://puu.sh/uQsLL/2661cdaa7c.jpg
> 3. My lspci output looks like this:
> https://puu.sh/uQsUJ/ff0045aa59.jpg
> 4. Here's dmesg grepped for "driver" and "ath":
> https://puu.sh/uQt0l/a321614cd6.jpg

Have you seen this?
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/520031-Qualcomm-Atheros-QCA6174-wireless-not-working/page2?s=11bc494a125b203d71b812d8f58abe1f


https://packages.debian.org/stretch/firmware-atheros - Qualcomm Atheros
QCA6174 rev 3.0 firmware, versionWLAN.RM.2.0-00180-QCARMSWPZ-1
(ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/firmware-4.bin)

> I don't know what to do. Other operating systems manage to find and use my
> wifi, but Debian is different, even using its proprietary-firmware-bundled
> ISO.
> 

-- 
 "The most violent element in society is ignorance" rEG

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