On Monday 14 April 2014 11:45:06 you wrote:
> On 14 April 2014 00:05, Serghei Amelian <serghei@...> wrote:
> > On Monday 14 April 2014 00:33:16 Robert Peters wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >> My Thinkpad laptop has a Lubuntu partition that has wired and
> >> wireless access: the modules are iwlwifi and e1000e.
> >> Another partition runs exeGnu Trinity 14 but no internet
> >> connection. I used modprobe to install the above modules and put
> >> their names in /etc/modules, but wlan0 and eth0 are still not
> >> seen.
> >> What to do?
> >> Robert
> >
> > Check dmesg. Most probably you did not installed the firmwares
> > required by your network cards.
> > --
> > Serghei
>
> True, the network devices don't get loaded.  I have copied iwlwifi
> ucode files to /lib/firmware and am trying to find how to get the
> kernel to use them on startup.
> Robert

You sould not have to manually add firmware, afaik.

Somethng like the following link might help, Ubuntu is similar, try 
their site.

https://wiki.debian.org/iwlwifi

My thinkpad is  a 520 series and works with Wheezy and TDE 14.

-- 
Peace,

Greg