Saturday, March 10, 2012

A quick note on wireless firmware in Debian

Installing Debian on my laptop, I realized that I need a non-free firmware for my wireless card. Apparently Ubuntu bundles this with its installation media, but not Debian. So after installing Debian, I downloaded this tarball from here and installed the .deb package with iwlwifi in its name (that's for my Intel wireless card).
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