On 13/06/13 22:12, Mark Trickett wrote:
I am about to load Debian 7 (Wheezy) on an Acer notebook. I have the .debs from Squeeze, will they work, do I need to rename, where might I be able to get the appropriate Wheezy variants. I found these via Google, and have in the root directory on a USB stick.
firmware-ipw2x00_0.28+squeeze1_all.deb firmware-linux-nonfree_0.28+squeeze1_all.deb
Pardon me if I’m missing something obvious, but why can’t you do what normal people do and go: # apt-get update # apt-get install firmware-ipw2x00 firmware-linux-nonfree If you want to find out more about packages before you install the OS, http://packages.debian.org/ is your best bet. For example: http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=firmware-linux-nonfree http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=firmware-ipw2x00 If you absolutely insist on downloading the .deb files individually as you have indicated above, then you can do that on the packages.debian.org site as well.