Installation
Update 2014: notes below were with Debian "squeeze". It works fine with current Debian "wheezy".
Installation was a mess. The current Debian "sqeeze" installer detects neither the e1000e network card nor the hard disk (SSD). I ended up doing an installation using the "debian-installer" (d-i) unofficial backports, however that detected the network card but not the hard disk. So I installed on a USB disk (my n900 cellphone!), grub didn't want to install on that for some reason, so I did a PXE boot, upgraded the kernel to the 2.6.39 backport, booted the new kernel, partitionned and copied over the files onto the hard disk, and finally installed grub.
Disabling the touchpad
I was lazy and used the GUI program "gpointing-device-settings".
This page has more information: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_configure_the_TrackPoint
Wireless network ("Intel Corporation 6000 Series Gen2")
Add "non-free" to the Debian apt sources, then:
# apt-get install firmware-iwlwifi
Détecteur de chute
# apt-get install hdapsd
(quoique ceci n'est pas particulièrement pertinent avec un disque SSD, mais semble amusant comme fonction)