Ubuntu: Good and Bad. (Was: 13th December "Smack Down" Meeting)

[Daniel Wayne Armstrong]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Dave Germiquet
<davegermiquet-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> The one thing I liked about Ubuntu is that it supported my wireless
> out of the box. (Using a ThinkPad X201).
>
> However debian, did not support my wireless out of the box..or I would
> have used that.
>
> Does debian have problems supporting newer hardware because of its
> release schedule?
>
> I didn't try unstable (think I just tried Stable) so that may have
> been the issue.

Debian does not include non-free firmware with its installer. After
the install - on a Thinkpad X201 - download the missing package:

apt-get install firmware-iwlwifi

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