On Thu 26 Nov 2015 at 12:19:22 +0000, Francis Gerund wrote: > 1) > Per lspci, the network adapter is: > 02:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network > Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01). > > It is somewhat old, but not uncommon. I have > run many distributions using it (including Debian), and never had to > install proprietary firmware. > It seems to use open source driver(s). > > 2) > There is no desktop environment installed. The install did not show an > option to do so (I used the "text" install; not the "graphical" install). > It also did not offer to run tasksel, etc. I was surprised, I thought even > the netinst.iso did that.
I thought a debian-live-* ISO only installed a Live system and was not set up to as a general purpose installer like netinst.iso. Anyway, the problem might be installing over a WiFi link *and* not running tasksel to get a DE. In these circumstances the network is left unconfigured. At the d-i screen press TAB and add netcfg/target_network_config select ifupdown to the kernel line and boot. I'd use a netinst ISO. How does that go?
