Sunday, April 20, 2014

Debian 7 wheezy

Last week I installed debian 7.4 wheezy, and I am starting to think that this is really the Universal Operative System.





Nonetheless, there is a little thing that one have to fix soon after installing which is the no firmware for wireless network connection, hence, for that purpose the following explanations is a very good one to solve that issue.

"If you have not installed wireless firmware to support your wireless network card during Debian wheezy installation you can do so later by enabling debian's non-free repository. Here is how you do it. First open your /etc/apt/sources.list file and change line ( your repository mirror may be different ):
from:
deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ wheezy main
to:
deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ wheezy main non-free
Once done update packages list with a command:
# apt-get update
After the above command you can install firmware-iwlwifi with command:
# apt-get install firmware-iwlwifi

and you are done. Then may wont to simply use modprobe to load iwlwifi module or reboot." [1]

[1] http://linuxconfig.org/install-intel-wireless-firmware-on-debian-7-wheezy

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