Thinkpad R50e Wireless Card with Debian Etch 4.0
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:Posted: 2007-04-21 20:18
:Tags: Debian

To setup wireless networking I installed ``pciutils`` to find out which wireless card I had::

    apt-get install pciutils
    lspci

Turns out my card needs the ``ipw2200`` driver so download the firmware (v3.0) from http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php and copy it to ``/lib/firmware/``::

    tar zxf ipw2200-fw-3.0.tgz
    cd ipw2200-fw-3.0/
    sudo mv *.fw /lib/firmware/

You'll also need the ``wireless-tools`` and ``network-manager`` packages but these should already be installed if you do a default install.

Restart and the card should be picked up, you can then configure it using the Gnome networking tool ``network-admin``. After you've configured it everything should work.

Based on information here: http://wizah.blogspot.com/2006/03/debian-how-to-etch-on-asus-z63a.html