Re: How to install firmware-linux-nonfree

Dave Horsfall <[email protected]> Wed, 12 Jul 2017 11:44:35 +1000 (EST)

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.user.laptop
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On Wed, 12 Jul 2017, Dave Horsfall wrote:

> Acer Aspire E15, running Jessie (latest).
> 
> At boot, it bleats: "drm:radeon_pci_probe] *ERROR* radeon kernel 
> modesetting for R600 or later requires firmware-linux-nonfree" so I 
> installed it with "apt-get install ...", but it made no difference.  
> What else needs to be done?

Odd...  I repeated the command, and this time it worked.  I hate that, as 
it didn't actually identify the problem.

> Also, the WiFi does not work on 5GHz; is there an update for that?

The 802.11b/g/n still doesn't see my 5GHz AP (but my obsolete MacBook 
does).