Switched from Ubuntu to Debian Testing

This week I installed Debian on my notebook just to find out how this would be different. My first attempt to use Debian was in 2000 with the release of ‘potato’. I installed ‘Etch’ using ‘expertgui’. My HP Pavillion dv1159ea has “Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG” which was not installed.

sudo apt-get install ipw2200-modules-2.6.18-6-686

the dmesg output said something like:

ipw2200: ipw2200-bss.fw request_firmware failed: Reason -2

This means the driver tries to send the firmware file to the device, which is not being distributed by Debian.

http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/README.ipw2200 explains how to obtain a working firmware. After rebooting, the wireless worked.

I did a dist-upgrade to lenny (testing) which should be stable enough for my usage.

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