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I just installed Debian7 on a laptop that I was using Windows on.

When on Windows I had wifi, and I want to set up the wifi on Debian.

On Ubuntu there is a nice feature in the panel where I can connect but only the wired one is showing up in Debian.

I can't seem to find any clear tutorial that works for me, and I really need wifi to work. Unfortunately a wired connection isn't an alternative option.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

[EDIT]

My output:

$ lspci -nn | grep 0280

03:00.0 Network Controller [0280] Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 2230 [8086:0887] (rev c4)



$dmesg | grep -i wireless

[   7.861295] Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux, in tree:



$ sudo iwconfig

lo        no wireless extensions.



eth0      no wireless extensions.



$ sudo ifconfig

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 10:bf:48:58:ec:d6  

          inet addr:139.165.112.68  Bcast:139.165.112.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

          inet6 addr: fe80::12bf:48ff:fe58:ecd6/64 Scope:Link

          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:461221 errors:0 dropped:5828 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:198287 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 

          RX bytes:491154704 (468.4 MiB)  TX bytes:17839931 (17.0 MiB)

          Interrupt:44 Base address:0xc000



lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  

          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0

          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host

          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1

          RX packets:584 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:584 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 

          RX bytes:44560 (43.5 KiB)  TX bytes:44560 (43.5 KiB)

I believe you are missing the non-free firmware package. Given the wifi card you mention you should follow the corresponding debian documentation.

Since I found the fix I decided to post it as an answer.

What I did was go back and reinstall the operating system to see if there was anything I had missed and sure enough there was a point during the step where it detects the computers hardware that it requests some files (iwlwifi-2030-6.ucode, rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw) for the Wireless card to work.

These files are located at the following links:

https://packages.debian.org/squeeze-backports/firmware-iwlwifi
https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/firmware-realtek

All that I had to do was load them on to a USB stick and read them off the USB during the setup.

Thank you all again, for your help!