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Installing wifi card on debian
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1. use dmesg to find out the device: | |
[ 987.836474] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: firmware: agent aborted loading iwlwifi-3945-2.ucode (not found?) | |
[ 987.844596] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: firmware: agent aborted loading iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode (not found?) | |
[ 987.844755] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: Could not read microcode: -2 | |
2. add non-fee repo: | |
# head /etc/apt/sources.list | |
# | |
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free | |
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main | |
3. search the driver: | |
# apt-cache search iwlwifi | |
4. install the driver: | |
# apt-get install firmware-iwlwifi | |
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