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Hey guys,

I have a couple of questions regarding getting various applications and processes to work with my installation of Debian. I installed Lenny with a wired connection and am now trying to get wireless working. I now have a Sony Vaio VGN-FZ190 laptop with an Intel (R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN adapter and a Marvell Yukon 88E8036 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller. I have done some research and it does appear that the Intel adapter is supported (linux kernel 2.6.23 or later - why I installed Lenny). Everywhere I look it appears that I am supposed to be running the following command:

Code:

aptitude install firmware-iwlwifi

However, I get the following:

Code:

debian:/home/olivier# apt-get install firmware-iwlwifi

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree      

Reading state information... Done

E: Couldn't find package firmware-iwlwifi

debian:/home/olivier#

According to iwlwifi - Debian Wiki, I will need to add "non-free repository to /etc/apt/sources.list " I am not entirely certain how to accomplish this and google has not been of much help. I tried adding the following after finding it on a guide, but the same error occurs.
Google

Code:

  

    # See sources.list(5) for more information, especially

    # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs

    # CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool.

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

    deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free

    deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free

    

    # Uncomment if you want the apt-get source function to work

    #deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free

    #deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free

Can anyone shed any light on this?

Next, I installed xchat but am unable to log on to the Debian server. This is the endless cycle that occurs:

Code:

 Python interface loaded

 Perl interface loaded

 Tcl plugin for XChat - Version 1.63 

 Copyright 2002-2005 Daniel P. Stasinski

 http://www.scriptkitties.com/tclplugin/

 Tcl interface loaded

* Looking up irc.debian.org

* Connecting to irc.geo.oftc.net (66.184.117.12) port 6667...

* Connection failed. Error: No route to host

 Cycling to next server in Debian Servers...

* Disconnected ().

* Looking up irc.debian.org

* Connecting to irc.geo.oftc.net (66.184.117.12) port 6667...

* Connection failed. Error: No route to host

 Cycling to next server in Debian Servers...

* Disconnected ().

* Looking up irc.debian.org

* Connecting to irc.geo.oftc.net (66.184.117.12) port 6667...

* Connection failed. Error: No route to host

Thanks in advance.

Wasp

Edit: Here is what my /etc/apt/sources.list currently looks like after a fresh install.

Code:

# 

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official RC i386 CD Binary-1 20081104-07:57]/ lenny main



deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official RC i386 CD Binary-1 20081104-07:57]/ lenny main



deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main

deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main



deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main

deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main