Re: Need Help Config'ing a Broadcomm Wireless NIC

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:24:59 -0600
Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:

> Kent wrote:
>  > westk@evoljasen:~$ sudo aptitude search modprobe
>  > westk@evoljasen:~$
> 
> 
> Celejar wrote:
>  > $ dpkg -S modprobe
> 
> I was pleased to find this trick, but now that I'm actually trying to 
> use it, I find it only works on packages already installed on your 
> system; it doesn't search your repositories, which is the trick I needed.

For that you'll need apt-file, or use the web form at
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages 

> Kent

Celejar
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