Debian Install

That was an incredible weekend.
I installed a win8, and a Debian squeeze.
The win8 install was an upgrade, and a long procedure.
And the Debian install include some surprise. I couldn't connect on my wifi connector, and the Iceweasel was an very old version. Fortunately the Debian wiki absolutely good support give for the users.

For the wifi firstly need to install the driver.

1.      Add a "non-free" component to /etc/apt/sources.list, for example:

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian squeeze main contrib non-free

(Yesterday I couldn't use the hungarian site...)

2.      Update the list of available packages and install the firmware-iwlwifi and wireless-tools packages: (This is an IBM X60s with Intel technologies.)

# aptitude update && aptitude install firmware-iwlwifi wireless-tools

3.      As the iwlagn module is automatically loaded for supported devices, reinsert this module to access installed firmware:

# modprobe -r iwlagn ; modprobe iwlagn

4.      Verify your device has an available interface:

root@X60s:/# iwconfig

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11abg  ESSID:"Your SSID" 

          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.427 GHz  Access Point: "Your Acces point Address"  

          Bit Rate=1 Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm  

          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off

          Encryption key:off

          Power Management:off

          Link Quality=64/70  Signal level=-46 dBm 

          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0

          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

pan0      no wireless extensions.

And it is good well!