Shiny new is greatly over-rated.  Devuan Jessie will be available until Debian Jessie LTS expires in 2020.  If you want something newer, upgrade to ascii or ceres (which you can think of as a rolling release).  It is certainly possible to install openrc on ascii and will likely become the default in following releases.  Devuan will never be a rolling release because we value stability.  Perhaps you are in the wrong camp.  Why exactly are you here?

(I won't state the obvious)

FreeBSD might have taken care of the problem.  Did you check for apulse?

Do you have CUPS installed?  Unless your hardware is really new, that should do it.

Due to spammers, all new users are moderated.  When did you register?  Try to catch FlibberTGibbet on irc.

@ghaverla . . . looking forward to your report of how it went.

fsmithred to the rescue yet again!!

@ghaverta . . . The ascii isos are only unofficially available atm.  It's unlikely the Jessie ones will be compatible with newer hardware.  Maybe with a backported 4.9 kernel . . .

ascii is not buster.

beowulf will mirror buster

ascii mirrors stretch

So it is not currently possible to upgrade from debian buster to anything devuan except maybe ceres (sid)

Currently the version #s are a bit muddled.  Some pkgs in experimental need to be deleted.  It's all explained here especially towards the end.

That post is short on specifics.  What are you using to connect?  What driver do you have installed for what hardware?  Could we see your sources.list?  I'm only wired so can't help much but I know that info would be useful to find a solution.

There are problems with util-linux atm.   It is a priority to get it fixed.

There are long standing issues with util-linux.  Though I'm not quite sure what they are, this package is a major roadblock to the release of ascii.  Hopefully will be rectified before or  during the ascii sprint coming in mid-December.

That hasn't happened quite yet but will soon.