Connecting to wireless network in debian

Connecting to ethernet is as easy as in last post.Connecting to wireless is also as easy but the main problem is that we rarely find resources that help as to do the same.

Inorder to connect to wifi one has to install the firmware for the network driver.The driver can be found using the command nm-tools .
Now for intel cards the driver is iwlagn whose firmware can be downloaded and installed.

first add a non free repositry to /etc/apt/sources.list


deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian squeeze main contrib non-free  


Now the firmware can be installed through the following commands


# aptitude update


# aptitude install firmware-iwlwifi wireless-tools


the module can be loaded by the command


#modprobe iwlagn


This solves the problem.


For other drivers,the installation details can be found form
http://wiki.debian.org

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