> > > >>> Do you have this package installed? What does "apt-cache policy > >>> linux-firmware-nonfree" say? > >>> > >> > >> It says unable to locate linux-firmware-nonfree > >> > >> ie it's not installed I guess > > > > That message means that apt-cache can't find that package at all. If > > you have recently added non-free to sources.list you will need to > > run "apt-get update". After doing that, it should be available to > > install via "apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree". > > I noticed that the sources.list contents which were posted listed > 'nonfree', with no hyphen. > > Every other sources.list reference to non-free I've ever seen has > included the hyphen, and a quick test with dropping the hyphen on my own > system results in errors on 'apt-get update'. > > I suspect that the omitted hyphen means his system is not actually > seeing non-free at all. I would suggest adding the hyphen and trying again. > > I added the non-free epiphet to the sources.list file and then did apt-get update and aptitude safe-upgrade etc.
That did not install the firmware package. I had to do aptitude install linux-firmware-nonfree to get it installed. It is not automatic. This fixed everything. Thanks MF
