Re: Wireless on Acer Aspire E-15

Hi Dave,

I have the following and it works with the broadcom-sta-dkms package:

[   12.186138] wlan0: Broadcom BCM43a0 802.11 Hybrid Wireless
Controller 6.30.223.271 (r587334)
[   12.344832] wl 0000:03:00.0 wlp3s0: renamed from wlan0

This is a newer MacBook Air (2014 or 2015) and it works with both
Jessie and Stretch.

I use a sitecom USB wired lan adapter to do the full installation and
then install broadcom-sta-dkms to get the Wireless working, this is a
lot easier compared to CentOS or RHEL (I tried them once it it took a
lot more mwork to get it woring under those distro's).

I hope this helps

Patrick Kox

Dave Horsfall schreef op ma 15-05-2017 om 17:40 [+1000]:
> Having upgraded my broadband connection so that 5G is now supported,
> how 
> do I get Debian 8 to support it?  My 7-year-old MacBook sees it, and 
> connects...  Is a firmware upgrade required or something?
> 
> I found this with "dmesg":
> 
> [    7.168029] ath: phy0: WB335 2-ANT card detected
> [    7.168040] ath: phy0: Set BT/WLAN RX diversity capability
> [    7.174831] ath: phy0: Enable LNA combining
> [    7.175932] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x65
> [    7.175934] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct
> regpair map
> [    7.175938] ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00
> [    7.175940] ath: Regpair used: 0x65
> [    7.410114] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm
> 'minstrel_ht'
> [    7.410812] ieee80211 phy0: Atheros AR9565 Rev:1
> mem=0xffffc90004a00000, irq=36
> 
> Linux debbie 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.39-1+deb8u2 (2017-03-
> 07) x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> Thanks.
>