Update on this bug: 1. With debian-installer 20250803+deb13u1 and hw-detect 1.171, the firmware for the laptop’s network card won’t install. The installer freezes at “Detect network hardware.” In /var/log/syslog the last line is: hw-detect exited nonzero.
2. After applying this patch, everything works: the install finishes and the firmware gets installed.
