hI,

Your card seems to be a pci-e one. According to this page

  http://wiki.debian.org/rtl819x#Drivers

I think you should upgrade your linux kernel to some version > 3.0.0 since 
support for your wireless card has started with kernel 
3.0.0~rc1-1~experimental.1.

To do so, you must install a fresher kernel than the one shipped with Debian 
Squeeze, which seems to be 2.6.32-5:

Add the following 7 lines in /etc/apt/sources.list to gain access to the Debian 
testing (which will become Debian 7 "Wheezy") and unstable packages:
## Debian Wheezy 7.0 / testing:
deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free

## Debian unstable:
deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free

then, update aptitude data base as root:

  aptitude update

or prefix it with sudo:

  sudo aptitude update

then install the unstable kernel (seems to be linux-image-3.1.0-1-amd64 as of 
today) and the realtek firmware:


  aptitude install linux-image-3.1.0-1-amd64 firmware-realtek


aptitude might ask you to upgrade libc6 and a few other packages as well, this 
is normal.  When it' done, reboot and choose to boot (something like) "Debian 
GNU/Linux kernel 3.1.0-1".  I think this is all you need to do.

Hope it does it!


Nicolas




>________________________________
> De : Paul Isambert <zappathus...@free.fr>
>À : debian-user@lists.debian.org 
>Envoyé le : Mardi 22 Novembre 2011 15h29
>Objet : Make WiFi work.
> 
>Hello,
>
>I've just installed Debian next to Windows 7, with the first DVD (i.e. 
>debian-6.0.3-amd64-DVD-1.iso). It was not without trouble, but now it works.
>
>The problem is the wifi. My card (Realtek RTL8191SE Wireless LAN 802.11n PCI-E 
>NIC, says Windows) is apparently not recognized. I've tried various solutions 
>explained here and there, I have installed firmware-realtek and ndiswrapper 
>and wpa_supplicant and I don't know what, nothing worked.
>
>The hard part is that I have to switch to Windows to get an internet 
>connection, gather info and material, restart with Debian, try, fail, switch 
>to Windows again, an so on and so forth. Plus those stuff I'm instructed to 
>do, modprobe, iwconfig, you name it ... are ancient Greek to me, so I apply 
>them blindly, and perhaps what I've done before has gotten in the way, etc. So 
>I'm a bit tired, but I really would like to switch to Debian -- and have an 
>internet connection to find online documentation and start learning how to use 
>it.
>
>So: is there a simple solution to make the card mentionned above work? By 
>"simple", I mean that if something must be done, it should be explained 
>thoroughly (and not alluded to with "check X with Y"); I'm a complete newbie, 
>so assume absolutely no prior knowledge.
>
>Best,
>Paul
>
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