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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.