On Tue 05 May 2015 at 14:49:18 -0400, Charles Kroeger wrote:

> On Tue, 05 May 2015 12:10:02 +0200
> Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > The non-free firmware-atheros package has the firmware for the adapter.
> 
> I have the 'firmware-atheros' package installed. I take it that's the free
> non-working version of the non-free package
> 
> I have non-free sources in my sources.list wonder why it didn't show up?
> 
> You don't have a location for this do you?
> 
> I'll also have a look out there.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion.  That may solve the problem.

I mentioned firmware-atheros because it is in the Debian archives and
not because getting the firmware file your adapter needs from elsewhere
is a problem. In fact, I don't believe what you have is a problem.

You could try

  ifconfig wlan0 up

to activate the interface before following the remainder of the advice
given.


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