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The wireless netword card need a binary firmware blob that can't be distributed with Debian/main, and one thus need to download it from Intel or
some other source.		 The wireless netword card (Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG PCI id 8086:4224) need a binary firmware blob that can't be distributed with Debian/main, and one thus need to download it from Intel or
some other source.  It uses the ipw2200 kernel module when the firmware is in place.

IBM Thinkpad X41

This laptop installs out of the box with Debian Edu version 3.0r0 as a workstation using the netinst CD.

The wireless netword card (Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG PCI id 8086:4224) need a binary firmware blob that can't be distributed with Debian/main, and one thus need to download it from Intel or some other source. It uses the ipw2200 kernel module when the firmware is in place.