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On Thu, Feb 12, 2026 at 06:58:11AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 03:45:32PM -0700, Gregory Nowak via Dng wrote:
>
> > Try installing the wireless-regdb package. You may also need to enable
> > the non-free sources, and install firmware-linux-nonfree.
> >
> > Greg
>
> Greg, thanks for the feedback, but if I can't boot, how do I
> install applications or edit /etc/apt/sourceslist?

Your original post didn't indicate that you can't boot. The output you
posted seems to indicate your newly installed system came up fine, and
just the wireless card didn't work. If you in fact have a newly
installed system that won't boot, then a not functioning wireless card
is the least of your problems (if it even is one). In this case, it
might be easiest to do the install again.

> Can it be done
> with a Devuan Live? I have a devuan live key and run sy - to get
> a root termnial.

It likely can be done with devuan live, and I'm sure you type su, not sy.

> I make a mount point in /root, but system will
> not allow me to mount /dev/nvme0n1 on it that directory.

So make it somewhere else, like /mnt or /media. I haven't used devuan
live myself, so maybe someone else who has can give you more details.

>
> Incidentally, in the Devuan Live /root I find a file named
> remove_firmware.sh.

I believe this is there for those who want no non-free things on their system.

>
> On my running system I find that firmware-linux-nonfree has not
> been installed.

I'm confused. You said above you can't boot, but you just said that
you have a running system. Therefore, given the output you posted in
your previous post, and that you have just said you have a running
system, I will assume you do in fact have a running system. In that
case, installing firmware-linux-nonfree should fix your wireless
errors you posted previously. You will need to use an Ethernet cable
to do the package install, a cellular hotspot if possible, or another
computer with internet access to download firmware-linux-nonfree to a
flash drive which you can install from on your running system.

Greg


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