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Debian on a Dell E4300

I received a new laptop, a Dell Latitude E4300. I installed lenny on it, as I usually run testing+APT pinning. What I’m describing here is what is unsupported in lenny out of the box.
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Wireless:
Needs a 2.6.27 kernel (iwlagn driver), Lenny only has 2.6.26. Downloaded from the kernel team’s unofficial repo. Firmware isn’t packaged in Debian (firmware-iwlwifi needs an update). Needed to download it from Intel.

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