*** PROBLEM SOLVED ***
Thanks for the suggestion. I was able to get Wi-Fi working on Debian through the contributions of people on this thread.
Here was my procedure:
I used the download link you provided to get the iso of Debian 10.5 x64 gnome + non-free software.
Burned that image to a DVD...
Well, the 64-bit version of AntiX did cut down the number of errors, but it didn't resolve everything. When I got to intalling dhcpcd5, I got this message:
root@antix1:/# apt install dhcpcd5
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might...
Mounting those two additional directories allowed me to chroot into the Debian environment and update the system using:
#apt-get update
The response was 0 upgraded, 978 newly installed, 397 to remove and 1 not upgraded. 3 not fully installed or removed. I ran update a second time without any...
Thanks for the welcome.
To answer your questions:
1. My computer has a MBR.
2. The initial Debian installation was done from a DVD, which should have been a 64-bit version. I would never have selected a 32-bit option. However, the current OS with the Exec Format Error is AntiX 19.2_i386 the...
Everything worked great up to step 7.
I chose to put antiX 19.2_386_full on a live USB, and wireless works out of the box, so far so good. I bound those four directories you mentioned to /mnt but when I went to chroot:
root@antix1:/home/demo# sudo chroot /mnt
chroot: failed to run command...
I changed my sources.list file to comment out the #deb-src lines. No problem there.
When I tried to sudo dhcpcd the system responded with "dhcpcd: command not found" I'm working within an admin account, so I figured that was not a privilege problem. I went and did a little more digging with...
I tried installing the right package for my wireless PCI card and I still get the “No WiFi Adapter Found” error.
Setup:
Memory 11.7 GB
Processor Intel Core i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz * 8
Graphics NVA0
GNOME 3.30.2
Debian GNU/Linux 10.5.0
OS type 64-bit
Disk 736.8 GB
Network ASUS PCE-AC86 Wireless PCI...