[ Thanks to linuxaria for this link.
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“During my tests i installed a Debian 6 Squeeze on an Old laptop
with an integrated ethernet card and a PCMCIA wireless card.
Problem, after the install all works perfectly but the wireless,
and installing new packages without a net is not so
comfortable.“You have to search on the net for the name of the packages you
need, download them and ALL their dependency put them on a USB
stick and then hope that this work and resolve your problem.
Naturally the first try (new kernel module for the wireless card, a
rt61 + his firmware) did not solve the problem.“So I decided to use my laptop with Xubuntu as gateway, the
Xubuntu has a working wireless card and a free ethernet slot. So
what I did is put a crossover-cable between them and configure the
Xubuntu as a gateway, all worked fine and now the other laptop is
updating the system.“This is how i did it in details.”