On Tue 14 Jul 2020 at 16:59:00 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote: > Vlad Dragomir wrote: > > I am very new to Debian, and would like to apologise first, I might not > > know how exactly to describe this issue. > > Everybody starts somewhere. > > > > I tried to install Debian on an unused laptop I'm having, using the iso > > downloaded from this torrent: > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/10.4.0+nonfree/amd64/bt-dvd/firmware-10.4.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso.torrent > > Pretty good choice. > > > It started wonderfully, the installation went smoothly until it tried to > > connect to the Internet. It asks for additional non-free firmware, > > unfortunately it's an Intel wireless card. It gives a list of files it > > needs in order to configure the network, which is I suppose a good start. > > Still, > > 1. I have no idea where to find those files, Google didn???t help me much > > with this. > > 2. If I find those files, I don???t know where exactly to paste them on > > the installation drive for it to see them. > > 3. This installation iso pretends it contains non-free firmware already, > > so normally it shouldn???t ask for those files. Am I missing something? > > Therefore, I had to cancel the installation, at least for the time being. > > It would be rather useless to have a system without Internet access. > > Let's find out which Intel wireless card you have. With the > installer running, choose "start local shell". > > Then type > > lspci > > and look for lines with Network in them. They should start with > a number like 03.00 or something like that. > > Tell us the output from > > lspci -vv #### > > where #### is the number from the Network line.
It seems odd that it's asking for such a long list of files. I assume it would be happy with just one of them, and it's just giving alternatives in order of preference. iwlwifi-8000C-36.ucode iwlwifi-8000C-35.ucode iwlwifi-8000C-34.ucode iwlwifi-8000C-33.ucode iwlwifi-8000C-32.ucode iwlwifi-8000C-31.ucode iwlwifi-8000C-30.ucode iwlwifi-8000C-29.ucode iwlwifi-8000C-28.ucode iwlwifi-8000C-27.ucode iwlwifi-8000C-26.ucode iwlwifi-8000C-25.ucode iwlwifi-8000C-24.ucode iwlwifi-8000C-23.ucode iwlwifi-8000C-22.ucode But even my netinst ISO (firmware-10.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso 394265k Nov 16 2019) contains the first and last of these: iwlwifi-8000C-22.ucode 2120860 Aug 22 2019 iwlwifi-8000C-36.ucode 2486572 Aug 22 2019 BTW googling the filename gave me a link to https://github.com/wkennington/linux-firmware/blob/master/iwlwifi-8000C-36.ucode as the second hit. Cheers, David.