Thanks everyone. I got my WiFi up. Sharing the details here in case it helps someone in future.
1. aptitude update; aptitude install firmware-iwlwifi 2. modprobe -r iwl3945; modprobe iwl3945 (I am not sure whether step was required) But I got this message in /var/log/messages - ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready So, I thought I would do this. 3. ifconfig wlan0 up The amber indicator started glowing (but not blinking as it should if it is connected to a WiFi network) and I still got the same error message in /var/log/messages 4. ifconfig wlan0 down Turned it down since I thought it didn't help. The amber light went off. 5. Right clicked the network icon in gnome panel and selected Edit Connections, went to Wireless tab and clicked Add. Entered SSID, selected Mode as Infrastructure, left the BSSID field blank, copied MAC address from the output of ifconfig wlan0, left MTU to 'Automatic'. 6. Next went to 'Wireless Security' tab, selected 'WPA & WPA2 personal' and entered the WPA2 key I previously configured in the wireless router. On pressing 'Apply' button, it automatically started connecting and successfully connected. I have a question to the experts though. In step 5 and 6, I had to manually configure wlan0. However, I never had to do such configuration for eth1 when I was using Ethernet. Why so? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
