Debian wlan0 interface not found

I have troubles to configure my wireless card in Debian Wheezy. I followed the instruction from:

It is a fresh debian install, before this i ran Ubuntu but because I had some troubles with it (not wireless related problems) I decided to give Debian wheezy a try.

Note: Wireless worked out of the box running the latest Ubuntu version.

Before installed the Debian I checked my wireless card it told me it was:

8086:0083 Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1000 [Condor Peak]

Note: internal wireless card on laptop: Dell XPS L502x

this card is also in the list of supported devices, so i installed Debian, installed the iwlwifi module. that enabled the 'Wireless' tab at the network manager. But iwconfig tells me that there is no wlan0 interface found.

so i ran lspci -nn | grep Wireless on the debian terminal and it stated: (see the difference to the numbers in the beginning)

03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1000 [Condor Peak] [8086:0083]

output: rfkill list all (i had to install rfkill first, maybe it is a sign more is missing? )

$> rfkill list all
0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no 

when i ran iwconfig, ifconfig or ip addr these interfaces are shown:

eth0 (currently working on)
lo (loopback)

ouput: ifconfig -a

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 84:8f:69:ae:44:5a inet addr:192.168.178.29 Bcast:192.168.178.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::868f:69ff:feae:445a/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:2465 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2093 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:1922631 (1.8 MiB) TX bytes:255361 (249.3 KiB) Interrupt:41 Base address:0x6000
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:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:480 (480.0 B) TX bytes:480 (480.0 B)

output of: dmesg | grep Wireless

[ 6.686069] Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux, in-tree:
[ 6.686694] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Centrino(R)
Wireless-N 1000 BGN, REV=0x6C

Do i have to manually 'start' the wireless card before it is able to scan the networks? Do you have any suggestions for me to make it work?

1 Answer

Problem solved!

i had to install the following package: firmware-iwlwifi (0.36+wheezy.1) [non-free]

Link: Rebooted and Voilla!