Netgear WNA1000M on Debian Jessie
Add a “non-free” component to /etc/apt/sources.list, for example: Debian 8 “Jessie” deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free Update the list of available packages and install the firmware-realtek package: apt-get update && apt-get install firmware-realtek apt-get update apt-get install network-manager-gnome reboot