I installed Debian Wheezy on my Lenovo X61s. Get debian-7.5.0-i386-netinst.iso and use uNetbootin to install it to a USB drive. In uNetbootin, select ISO and find the netinst.iso file, and then make sure it gets installed to the proper USB drive. Reboot and launch the Debian installer (make sure X61s can boot from USB). Debian installer said that I needed to load additional firmware for my wireless card: Some of your hardware needs non-free firmware files to operate. The firmware can be loaded from removable media, such as a USB stick or floppy. The Missing firmware files are: iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode If you have such media available now, insert it, and continue. Load missing firmware from removable media? <Yes> <No> On another computer, go here ( https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/firmware-iwlwifi ) and download the firmware file. (Click the "all" link and it should take you to https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/all/firmware-iwlwifi/download . Then c
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