[Assist] wireless card not connected during installation

[Andrew Spano]

Hello,

I'm trying to make the switch to parabola from ubuntu but I'm running into
trouble at the beginning of installation.  For some reason parabola is not
detecting my wireless hardware.  When I run iwconfig, it does not report
the existence of any wireless device on my laptop.


Is this because there isn't any free software available for my wireless
card?  I find this difficult to believe because I'm almost certain that it
was running fine using a free driver on ubuntu.


When I plug in a separate usb wireless card I am prompted with this error
"1-1: Missing Free firmware"
"usb 1-1 ath9k_htc: Async request for firmware /*(DEBLOBBED)*/ failed.


I had both of these devices working fine using free drivers on other
devices.  I know at the very least that I did not personally install any
proprietary drivers and they appeared to be using atheros drivers.

My laptop is a Lenovo Thinkpad T530.

I'd like to know what's going wrong, and how to fix it if possible.
Any help is sincerely appreciated in advance.

Thanks,

Andrew
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