[Assist] wireless card not connected during installation
Sachin Dey
sachinsdey at yahoo.com
Mon Jun 10 04:36:22 GMT 2013
On Monday 10 June 2013 04:46 AM, Andrew Spano wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to make the switch to parabola from ubuntu but I'm running
> into trouble at the beginning of installation. For some reason
> parabola is not detecting my wireless hardware. When I run iwconfig,
> it does not report the existence of any wireless device on my laptop.
>
>
> Is this because there isn't any free software available for my
> wireless card? I find this difficult to believe because I'm almost
> certain that it was running fine using a free driver on ubuntu.
>
>
> When I plug in a separate usb wireless card I am prompted with this
> error "1-1: Missing Free firmware"
> "usb 1-1 ath9k_htc: Async request for firmware /*(DEBLOBBED)*/ failed.
>
>
> I had both of these devices working fine using free drivers on other
> devices. I know at the very least that I did not personally install
> any proprietary drivers and they appeared to be using atheros drivers.
>
> My laptop is a Lenovo Thinkpad T530.
>
> I'd like to know what's going wrong, and how to fix it if possible.
> Any help is sincerely appreciated in advance.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew
There's a post in Trisquel forum about your hardware
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/ath9khtc-wifi-update
Sincerely,
Sachin Dey
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