Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Mi, 18 ian 12, 22:03:22, lee wrote:Will I be able to get the wireless working with the first DVD before making any changes to the hard disks?Network setup is before the partitioning step, at least you can stop if you can't get wireless working and start over.
Cool, I can try the unofficial installer first then.
Hm, what´s the point in having the firmware only and not the software to get the wireless card to work? Apparently, I need software from the non-free section which isn´t included on the DVDs, so having the firmware only get´s me no more than like half the way.What software exactly do you need from non-free? Are you sure it's not the firmware?
According to [1], I need the "firmware-iwlwifi" and "wireless-tools" packages from the non-free section. I could download them before starting the installation and might end up having to dowload more packages to resolve dependencies ...
[1]: http://wiki.debian.org/iwlagn