On Saturday 07 March 2015 03:45:29 am elcaseti . wrote: > I don't understand. It's clear that Exe doesn't have drivers for many > sound cards & wifi cards. But, are you saying that regular Debian Jessie > with TDE installed later will provide drivers for most sound cards & wifi > cards? Thanks > > On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@...> wrote: > > On Saturday 07 March 2015 06:27:13 Robert Peters wrote: > > > Hello, > > > While trying yet again to get audio working I managed to clobber my > > > TDE 14 setup. Want to reinstall from live CD (on USB stick). Tried > > > the Ubuntu one; the installer didn't let me complete the partition > > > setup. Tried the most recent Ubuntu nightly; can't even get to the > > > GUI or installer program. > > > I don't care much for what I've seen of PCLinuxOS. Maybe I can mess > > > around with Debian/Exe again. But really, isn't there something I can > > > use and recommend to others that just works???? (i.e., with > > > functioning wifi and sound) > > > > My Jessie with TDE14 Just Worked. But you won't get sound and wi-fi with > > Exe. > > Exe is all free (as in beer). Install Jessie, then TDE. > > > > Lisi This image has non-free firmware, helps with unsupported , by Debian, hardware. Install just the base + standard..put TDE on top. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/ and some gasp ! reading :-) : https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch06s04.html.en -- Peace, Greg