Hi,
The firmware-iwlwifi package contains the non-free microcode needed for
the wifi card to function.
Regards,
Karthik
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Adrian Levi <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2009/9/25 Jon Ander Peñalba <[email protected]>:
> > AFAIK iwlwifi is an open source driver that was merged into the linux
> kernel
> > v2.6.24 and Debian still needs 'firmware-iwlwifi' installed which is in
> the
> > non-free repository.
> >
> > Am I missing something?
>
> This card requires a non-free binary blob to be loaded into the card
> for it to work. That's where the firmware part comes into play.
>
> Adrian
>
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> ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my
> apartment it is.
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