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Installing wifi card on debian
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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