On 03/11/13 21:50, Devin Ceartas wrote: > I was disappointed to find the (admittedly cheap) adapter I bought for this > gifted Acer AspireOne didn't work. I already new the on-board wireless > chipset wasn't going to work, and I saw this review: > http://www.amazon.com/review/R20NYPJH13BJ8X for a USB wireless adapter. > > See the last lines of the dmesg below. Also, attempts to set the nwid and > then use dhclient just give me a "no link" message.
>From rsu(4): FILES The driver needs at least version 1.1 of the following firmware file, which is loaded when an interface is attached: /etc/firmware/rsu-rtl8712fw A prepackaged version of the firmware can be installed using fw_update(1). It seems you are missing this. /Alexander