debian from ethernet to wifi

[Jude DaShiell]

I've been doing some work over here and discovered a few things. 
dmesg|grep -in wlan returned wlan0 as a broadcom device so I installed 
broadcom-sta-common with recommended packages I'm not sure if connecting 
the wifi adapter helped or not but will find out shortly. The tower 
without the adapter has no wlan mentions in dmesg whe searched.  I'll 
check it with the antenna later and see if that helps.On Fri, 11 Sep 2015, 
Joel Roth wrote:

> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 22:27:11
> From: Joel Roth <joelz at pobox.com>
> To: blinux-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: debian from ethernet to wifi
> 
> Jude DaShiell wrote:
>> I have a command line installation of debian on a laptop that's supposed to
>> have the hardware to do wifi.  Right now, I don't yet know what additional
>> software to install so this computer can talk to the wifi network and log
>> on.  archlinux has madwifi and a large section on wifi installation on its
>> installguide file but that's not in the debian repository so for now I have
>> no clue.  I do have a wifi adapter antenna I will have to use with a tower
>> system but don't know if this wil also be needed to run the laptop.
>
> Here are a few  you could try: (from dpkg -l | grep firmware)
>
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> firmware-iwlwifi                       0.43                                   all          Binary firmware for Intel Wireless cards
> firmware-linux-free                    3.3                                    all          Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel
> firmware-linux-nonfree                 0.43                                   all          Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel
> firmware-realtek                       0.43                                   all          Binary firmware for Realtek wired and wireless network adapters
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